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Parliament and Parliamentary Democracy in Sri Lanka: A Brief Political History


Today is the International Day of Parliamentarism
Parliament has been a theme of many political debates in Sri Lanka since the establishment of the country’s first modern parliament in 1947. The narrative of Sri Lanka’s parliament has been intertwined with the stories of modern democracy, changing constitutional architecture of the state and political agendas of different elite groups vying for state power. The chronicle of Sri Lanka’s parliament is also an account of the vicissitudes of the country’s post-independence politics.
The introduction of the principle of elections based on limited franchise in 1910 and then the universal adult franchise in 1931 were early turning points during the formative phase of parliamentary system in colonial Sri Lanka. What evolved during the period between 1910 and 1947 was a proto-parliamentary system in the sense that the legislature was still an institution of the colonial state, the voters were not politically free citizens, ....

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