This was a huge upset to the corrupt Sri Lankan old-guard who never saw it coming. Hopefully he has a plan of action to rid the corrupt bloodsuckers from parliament and begin the hard work of restoring prosperity to the people of Sri Lanka. Power to the people!
Damn, and actual Marxist Leninist party. Wonder how long before the inevitable coup.
India/US Backed coup incoming
Hopefully India won’t play ball, considering the US has been encircling it with hostile regime changes and meddling even more than usual in its own internal issues. I’ve no doubt even Modi and the BJP, immensely flawed as they are, understand that the US is trying to tighten the noose on India, and dreams of using it like a massive nuclear Ukraine upon the Eurasian continent…
To make matters worse, Biden doesn’t remember who Modi is! https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5746243
i bet their dislike for china will galvanize them into couping sri lanka along with the us
I am prepared for all Americans to suddenly be concerned with all the Sunnis in Sri Lanka or something
American psycho scene with them discussing the oppressed israelites ofSri Lanka
Yes, I was hoping someone would pick up the reference, but also my grab bag of nationalities was wrong
Good for them, I hope they can do something with it
Although it would be nice if they could do anything, what about congress and/or other parts of the government that can block the president?
I know that if this happened in my country the president would either have to basically sell the country to get even mediocre laws passed, or more likely with the even farther right congress of now, would get impeached in no time, though I don’t know how much of this applies to Sri Lanka.
It’s probably going to be somewhat difficult for him to pull the country leftward except that he won by such a large margin they’re saying he basically has a mandate. So we’ll see how that works out I guess.
antielectorialists in shambles rn (/s I know how this could not happen in the west due to how entrenched the capitalists are and the institutions in place etc etc)
I’d wait to see if the new president gets the Allende treatment
With this election and with Allende, there are two separate-but-related questions:
- Can a leftist party gain state power through elections?
- Can a leftist party that gained power through elections hold that power against reactionary attacks?
Allende succeeding at #1 but failing at #2 does not mean every party that succeeds at #1 must fail at #2. It’s a question worth asking, but we have basically one data point.
Wait, voting works?
On the periphery of the empire perhaps, but not in the core it sure doesn’t.
