2022 Sri Lankan protestsProtests against the Sri Lankan governmentLead figuresLargely unorganized and decentralized leadershipGotabaya RajapaksaMahinda RajapaksaRanil WickremesingheDinesh GunawardenaCasualties and lossesThe 2022 Sri Lankan protests, also known as Aragalaya (Sinhala: අරගලය, lit. 'The Struggle'), were a series of mass protests that began in March 2022 against the government of Sri Lanka.
Rajapaksa familyThe Rajapaksa family (Sinhala: රාජපක්ෂ, romanized: Rājapakṣa) is a Sri Lankan family that is prominent in politics. It was one of Sri Lanka's most powerful families during Mahinda Rajapaksa's presidency, when many members of the family occupied senior positions in the Sri Lankan state. They have been particularly prominent in Sri Lankan national politics since 2005 when Mahinda Rajapaksa was elected president.
Gotabaya RajapaksaSecretary to the Ministry of Defence and Urban DevelopmentIn office19 November 2005 – 9 January 2015PresidentMahinda RajapaksaMinisterMahinda RajapaksaPreceded byAsoka JayawardenaSucceeded byB.
Politics of Sri LankaSri Lanka is a unitarymulti-partysemi-presidentialrepresentative democraticrepublic, whereby the President of Sri Lanka is both head of state and head of government. Executive power is exercised by the President on the advice of the Prime Minister and the Cabinet of Ministers. Legislative power is vested in the Parliament. The judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature.
Presidential Secretariat (Sri Lanka)The Presidential Secretariat (Sinhala: ජනාධිපති ලේකම් කාර්යාලය, romanized: janādhipati lēkam kāryālaya) is the office of the President of Sri Lanka. It provides the administrative and institutional framework for exercising the duties, responsibilities and powers vested in the President by the Constitution. The Presidential Secretariat is located in the Old Parliament Building in Colombo.
Sri Lankan economic crisis (2019–2024)The Sri Lankan economic crisis was an economic crisis in Sri Lanka that began in 2019 and ended in 2024. President Ranil Wickremasinghe is credited to this recovery. It was the island country's worst economic crisis since its independence in 1948. It had led to unprecedented levels of inflation, near-depletion of foreign exchange reserves, shortages of medical supplies, and an increase in prices of basic commodities.
President of Sri LankaThe president of Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා ජනාධිපති Śrī Laṅkā Janādhipati; Tamil: இலங்கை ஜனாதிபதி Ilaṇkai janātipati) is the head of state and head of government of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. The president is the chief executive of the union government and the commander-in-chief of the Sri Lanka Armed Forces.
Speaker of the Parliament of Sri LankaThe Speaker of the Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is the presiding officer of the chamber. The Speaker fulfills a number of important functions in relation to the operation of the House, which is based upon the BritishWestminster parliamentary system. The speaker is second in the Sri Lankan presidential line of succession, after the prime minister.President's House, ColomboPresident's House is the official residence and workplace of the president of Sri Lanka, located at Janadhipathi Mawatha, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Since 1804 it had been the residence of British governors and governors-general and was known as the "King's House" or the "Queen's House" until Sri Lanka became a republic in 1972. There were 29 governors who resided here, and there have also been six presidents who have resided or used it in an official capacity.
MaldivesIsland country in South AsiaThe Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, and historically known as the Maldive Islands, is an archipelagic country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean, near the southeastern boundary of the Arabian Sea. The Maldives is located southwest of India and Sri Lanka, about 750 kilometres (470 miles; 400 nautical miles) from the Asian continent's mainland.
Mahinda Yapa AbeywardenaSri Lankan politician (born 1945)
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