The vainglorious ‘advertising campaign’
The unsuccessful Presidential candidate Sarath
Fonseka has refused to concede defeat claiming that the verdict
announced by the Elections Commissioner was not in keeping with the
enthusiasm of people he encountered during his campaign. He further
claims that the opinion polls even as late as the January 25. showed
that he had a slender lead over the incumbent.
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Reflections on dream time
The electing-moment is made of a wide range of
emotions and thoughts including hope, anxiety, fear, expectation,
enthusiasm and even wonderment. The post-election moment is
divisive. Indeed I can’t think of any moment that cleanly separates
a polity into two distinct categories as ‘the moment after’.
Immediately after the results are announced, we have society divided
into two stark categories: those who identify with the winner and
those who rooted for the loser(s).
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Rajapaksa’s win
President Mahinda Rajapaksa deserved to win.
Yes, terrorism is an outcome of underlying social and political
problems and, in the first place, if the Governments can be
sensitive to the genuine needs of people, terrorism can be
prevented. Rajapaksa must start his new term with the admission that
successive Governments in Sri Lanka did commit mistakes in tackling
the social and political problems of the minority Tamils.
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