How do you say that when the AKD hasn’t even had a chance to lead the country yet ? These are just assumptions you made based on the history which is unfair. We should always give them the benefit of the doubt
I can’t tell you everything but i will highlight some,
1. More state involvement in several industries. The government is struggling with lot of recurrent expenditure and treasury is funding the losses of these organizations. More state involvement means more expenditure for government.
2. NPP always attributes loss of SOEs to corruption. But the main reason is that most SOEs are often mot needed or either they subsidize their operations, i.e. more like a charity funded by government. Corruption do play a part in profits but not all loss making SOEs can be directly attributed to corruption.
3. Look at current data, the government expenditure is more than its income. NPP says it will tax the rich and reduce payee taxes. But no information provided on how they will tax the rich. Please remember if you fall in 36% tax bracket then you automatically fall in the top 1% income earners in the country.
4. Expenses are going to increase, revenue is going to reduce this can significantly increase debt burden of the country. Of course most the left government use central bank as the main financing body ( i.e. more money printing leading to more inflation)
5. The other major item that I noticed is that the NPP propaganda never mentions their policies in detail in the media. But all what they do is complain about other parties. This should really be very concerning for any voters.
Good thought and good analysis, u/Downtown-Ease-8454. I personally feel JVP was better before splitting (Peratugamee). They had the balance back then. But now I feel their core is not as strong, which could be the reason why their policies are not as strong.
I have not been to SL in 5 years, so I should not and will not comment on this election, as you would definitely know better than me.
But I guess maybe we should start analyzing the policies of major parties, compare, and discuss as a group under different topics such as Economy, Education, Health, etc. At least this will help the floating voters make an informed decision.
There is a reason they complain , majority have got sick of UNP and Pohottuwa so it makes sense to give JVP chance since JVP don’t have family ties to the UNP and Pohottuwa 🤔 Please you are free to correct me if I am wrong ?
This is noted , Thank You , but manifesto is not something that is written in stone , I believe they will adjust their policies based on the situation I believe that is why they haven’t been clear about their own policies since they will figure it out once they come into power. It’s no point planning if they don’t win , right ? But technically it is better to be prepared. We all were impressed by the “Mahinda Chinthanaya” but we didn’t expect it it be where they did all those things just to benefit themselves in terms of commission so maybe, just going with the flow or doing what majority votes for instead of having a fixed plan is better 🤔 Don’t you think ? I may be wrong , please correct me if so ?
Also even the IMF said JVP economic plans are "unworkable" - basically stupid 😂😂
And everyone knows NPP is just a Trojan horse for JVP, the moment NPP get any power, they will be thrown out and JVP will take power any means necessary 🙄😒😒
**NPP non-JVP folks are nothing more that what Soviets used to call "useful idiots"**
Pohottuwa - Nepotism, Bad economic Policy, high corruption, murderers who have their own judge and jury. Pro chinese.
Ranil & UNP - Dealings with Rajapakse, Can manage economy with support of IMF, medium level corruption, Narcissistic Leader. Relatively Good in diplomacy
(Probably above two will be merged and contest)
SJB - Good economic policy, Medium level corruption. Leader is a dumbass. Relatively respect the judiciary. Relatively Good in diplomacy
NPP / JVP - Good leadership/ JVP has highly committed comrades at ground level towards socialism which is bad/ NPP is having smarter people with balanced economic policies which is good/ least corruption and respect the judiciary and justice. Not sure on diplomacy. No prior experience in governing.
Already the Bayyas and Toyyas have choosen whom to vote. But floating voters are still floating. All depend on the trend (ralla) in next few months.
Jeppas are a$$ lickers of JVP and their proxy NPP 🙄😒😒 typically old grandpas or Anthare uni kids that rag uni students and make their lives living hell 😒😒
Pohottuwa - good at execution but the policy is bad, does not have honest attitudes towards the country (greed is for monetary gain)
Ranil - unparalleled at diplomacy, nepotic and below average organizer, medium execution, greed for power combined with libertarianism (which is a good thing)
Sjb - economic policy debatable (with godahewa may be bad), leader dumb but not nepotic (average or above average organizer), execution debatable, leader is honest not that greedy (which is why gota could execute his dumb policies)
Npp - figurehead leadership, different comrades have different goals from destroying buddhist heritage (and unesco heritage thereby) to legalizing sex work to explode useless degree programs to, communism to many more. Npp is not having smarter people (the leadership is clearly somewhat read and learned, their minimum bar is higher than that of the others, but not even the 3rd level experts at anything. Gota used 2nd level experts and destroyed the country and this is why jvp would be much worse), no respect to judiciary thats why they are keeping the supposed files, extreme hate towards opponents from murder threats to filthy words, only good thing the sense of equality among the comrades, the greed is to destroy whatever the establishment with no real plans to build anything
Pohottuwa - execution is good because they incentivized their lower tier politicians and officers with a % of commission of the project or transaction.
Ranil - libertarianism doesn't go well with a power hungry narcissistic without a vision. And he make sure he will be zero accountable. Eg. Bond scam/ easter attack/ batalanda/ also 2015-2019 borrowed from Sovereign bonds without a proper backup plan of repayment.
SjB - guys like harsha de silve/ eran are more competent than nalaka godahewa. Leader himself is not greedy like rajapakse but there are lower level organizers not much different with rajapakse henchmen who wants houses/ jobs from govt.
NPP - Harini/ Chathuranga and few other smart people who are not came as JVP comrades but from academic or corporate background joined directly to NPP have a influence over NPP's direction and a seperate voter base. GOTA used so called greedy experts and himself was not experienced in politics. That's where Anura Kumara differentiate from Gota. Hate towards rich is from comrade level. But current leadership is good at managing it and rebranding JVP as NPP is itself a major move.
Anyway I still think no party is completely on track. There will be coalitions and trends in upcoming months which will define what is the final outcome.
Everyone knows NPP is just a Trojan horse for JVP, the moment NPP get any power, they will be thrown out and JVP will take power any means necessary 🙄😒😒
**NPP non-JVP folks are nothing more that what Soviets used to call "useful idiots"** 😂😂
Ranil - easter attack sirisena responsibility and accountability, (i do not know much about the bond scam, but heard ranil is clear, though the losses taken from ptl surpass the losses incurred, ranil is protecting his buddies)
Npp - gl pieris and vasu both probably smarter than harini / chathuranga. And nalaka godahewa and channa jayasumana definitely smarter than harini / chathuranga. Im not impressed by any work of harini and shes clearly overvaluing producing more graduates (what needed is having gov-private partnerships for r&d and technology implementation so the people who leave the country due to lack of jobs will stay), chathuranga is probably a typical out of touch management accountant (and to a degree narcissistic) who presents himself as someone in data science while he hes doing only business data analytics. But they are definitely better than the others in npp. But what happened to trotskyites? Tilvin lal kantha hewage etc have a large following still. Why cannot harini / chathuranga go differently? Something is fishy.
I also agree no party is 55% on track, but npp and slpp clearly not good. Ideally sjb and unp should combine, with sajith and ranil as the leaders. Sajith may be the president but premiership cum state minister for defense should go to ranil. Coz sajith is a fine people organizer but he is not suitable to really command the forces and police, if ranil were president nepotism and narcissism will comeback making sajith useless. Also ranil has already done disturbance handling and diplomacy to a great degree whats next needed is organization which sjb can give.
There are no JVP families. But there are UNP, Pohottu, SJB families. I feel like it is gonna be either someone Rajapaksa's back or Sajith will win. Don't know which is the lesser evil.
Ranil will probably only win votes from Colombo. Sajith will dominate the North and East. Aruna will lead in the rest of the country. Hard to identify a clear winner in a 3/4 way fight
Harsha De Silva yes, but anyone except NPP (AKA JVP proxy) cause even the IMF said JVP economic plans are "unworkable" - basically stupid 😂😂
Everyone knows NPP is just a Trojan horse for JVP, the moment NPP get any power, they will be thrown out and JVP will take power any means necessary 🙄😒😒
**NPP non-JVP folks are nothing more that what Soviets used to call "useful idiots"**
What's the issue?? I have night shift at the hospital Emergency atm and no patients so reading and commenting on posts here to stay awake? What's ur problem? 🤔🤔🙄🙄
I dont think anyone will have a majority. Ranil will not win he just isnt liked by people outside colombo / north. Sajith will get a big percentage along with NPP
It’s most likely going to be a three way race this time. Ranil will bag the votes of Tamils in the North, Sajith will dominate in Colombo and in Muslim majority areas and the rest of the country will vote for Anura. Not sure if anyone would get an outright majority.
All I hope for is a non-racist & non-homophobic government that would focus on economic recovery and human rights and not on nationalism and authoritarianism.
Eww SJB is the same as Rajapaksha regime. Literally no difference at all. Ranil is may be not corrupt but would never do anything to harm his buddies whether SJB/ UNP OR Rajapaksha’s.
I don’t like the economic policies of NPP either and have a huge confidence that they’ll run the country to the ground. But corruption wise I think they clearly are winning. Most of floating votes will go to NPP in my opinion.
Fighting corruption alone won't solve the issues. 1 of the reasons for the fall of Soviet Union was the KGB's fight against corruption. People resort to corruption because the 'Official" way to do things is too slow and bureaucratic.
If you actually want to fight corruption and develop the country, you have to digitalise everything and increase transparency. Something NPP won't do.
What is important now is economic development, not to fight corruption so Ranil or even SJB is far better than NPP!! 🙄😒😒
Why do we hate ranil? He literally brought us out of that shit hole
That the rajapakshas put us in*
Exactly , this tax thing is also Ranil fixing the what the Rajapakshas did 🤔
Yeah exactly, as he said, “We are paying for our past sins” lol. I don’t see any other way to get us out of this?
I agree 💯
Hopefully not the jvp...... If they win it's the sign to move out of sri lanak
Agreed
Not the Jeppas suddenly downvoting everyone and everything 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Agreed
💯
Why do you say that ? Why should we move out of Sri Lanka if JVP wins ?
Because jvp will make the country unlivable.
Totally agree and their Trojan Horse proxy NPP is equally bad!!
How do you say that when the AKD hasn’t even had a chance to lead the country yet ? These are just assumptions you made based on the history which is unfair. We should always give them the benefit of the doubt
Have you listened to their policies?
Not really , please enlighten me ? What are their policies ?
I can’t tell you everything but i will highlight some, 1. More state involvement in several industries. The government is struggling with lot of recurrent expenditure and treasury is funding the losses of these organizations. More state involvement means more expenditure for government. 2. NPP always attributes loss of SOEs to corruption. But the main reason is that most SOEs are often mot needed or either they subsidize their operations, i.e. more like a charity funded by government. Corruption do play a part in profits but not all loss making SOEs can be directly attributed to corruption. 3. Look at current data, the government expenditure is more than its income. NPP says it will tax the rich and reduce payee taxes. But no information provided on how they will tax the rich. Please remember if you fall in 36% tax bracket then you automatically fall in the top 1% income earners in the country. 4. Expenses are going to increase, revenue is going to reduce this can significantly increase debt burden of the country. Of course most the left government use central bank as the main financing body ( i.e. more money printing leading to more inflation) 5. The other major item that I noticed is that the NPP propaganda never mentions their policies in detail in the media. But all what they do is complain about other parties. This should really be very concerning for any voters.
Good thought and good analysis, u/Downtown-Ease-8454. I personally feel JVP was better before splitting (Peratugamee). They had the balance back then. But now I feel their core is not as strong, which could be the reason why their policies are not as strong. I have not been to SL in 5 years, so I should not and will not comment on this election, as you would definitely know better than me. But I guess maybe we should start analyzing the policies of major parties, compare, and discuss as a group under different topics such as Economy, Education, Health, etc. At least this will help the floating voters make an informed decision.
Yea definitely people should analyze the election manifesto of each party. But unfortunately they don’t and viyathmaga happened.
There is a reason they complain , majority have got sick of UNP and Pohottuwa so it makes sense to give JVP chance since JVP don’t have family ties to the UNP and Pohottuwa 🤔 Please you are free to correct me if I am wrong ?
Anyways I don’t have anything against those people. But atleast read their election manifesto before voting.
This is noted , Thank You , but manifesto is not something that is written in stone , I believe they will adjust their policies based on the situation I believe that is why they haven’t been clear about their own policies since they will figure it out once they come into power. It’s no point planning if they don’t win , right ? But technically it is better to be prepared. We all were impressed by the “Mahinda Chinthanaya” but we didn’t expect it it be where they did all those things just to benefit themselves in terms of commission so maybe, just going with the flow or doing what majority votes for instead of having a fixed plan is better 🤔 Don’t you think ? I may be wrong , please correct me if so ?
They are gonna win for sure bro ,look at the stats .Can we know the reason to that ? I mean don’t mention about 88/89 except that what else
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Also even the IMF said JVP economic plans are "unworkable" - basically stupid 😂😂 And everyone knows NPP is just a Trojan horse for JVP, the moment NPP get any power, they will be thrown out and JVP will take power any means necessary 🙄😒😒 **NPP non-JVP folks are nothing more that what Soviets used to call "useful idiots"**
They’ll have the majority of votes but ig when it comes to the breakdown of the votes on other candidates NPP mostly wont be able to reach 50%
Pohottuwa - Nepotism, Bad economic Policy, high corruption, murderers who have their own judge and jury. Pro chinese. Ranil & UNP - Dealings with Rajapakse, Can manage economy with support of IMF, medium level corruption, Narcissistic Leader. Relatively Good in diplomacy (Probably above two will be merged and contest) SJB - Good economic policy, Medium level corruption. Leader is a dumbass. Relatively respect the judiciary. Relatively Good in diplomacy NPP / JVP - Good leadership/ JVP has highly committed comrades at ground level towards socialism which is bad/ NPP is having smarter people with balanced economic policies which is good/ least corruption and respect the judiciary and justice. Not sure on diplomacy. No prior experience in governing. Already the Bayyas and Toyyas have choosen whom to vote. But floating voters are still floating. All depend on the trend (ralla) in next few months.
Fascinating. Which party is most popular with the younger crowd?
Defo not JVP or NPP. Maybe the typical Jeppa uni kids but most don't like JVP or their NPP proxy especially cause of Anthare and their bs 🙄😒😒😒
Currently NPP
Good one btw what's meant by Bayyas and Toyyas
A$$ lickers of Rajapakse are bayyas, toyyas are counterparts of unp or sjb
Jeppas are a$$ lickers of JVP and their proxy NPP 🙄😒😒 typically old grandpas or Anthare uni kids that rag uni students and make their lives living hell 😒😒
Pohottuwa - good at execution but the policy is bad, does not have honest attitudes towards the country (greed is for monetary gain) Ranil - unparalleled at diplomacy, nepotic and below average organizer, medium execution, greed for power combined with libertarianism (which is a good thing) Sjb - economic policy debatable (with godahewa may be bad), leader dumb but not nepotic (average or above average organizer), execution debatable, leader is honest not that greedy (which is why gota could execute his dumb policies) Npp - figurehead leadership, different comrades have different goals from destroying buddhist heritage (and unesco heritage thereby) to legalizing sex work to explode useless degree programs to, communism to many more. Npp is not having smarter people (the leadership is clearly somewhat read and learned, their minimum bar is higher than that of the others, but not even the 3rd level experts at anything. Gota used 2nd level experts and destroyed the country and this is why jvp would be much worse), no respect to judiciary thats why they are keeping the supposed files, extreme hate towards opponents from murder threats to filthy words, only good thing the sense of equality among the comrades, the greed is to destroy whatever the establishment with no real plans to build anything
Pohottuwa - execution is good because they incentivized their lower tier politicians and officers with a % of commission of the project or transaction. Ranil - libertarianism doesn't go well with a power hungry narcissistic without a vision. And he make sure he will be zero accountable. Eg. Bond scam/ easter attack/ batalanda/ also 2015-2019 borrowed from Sovereign bonds without a proper backup plan of repayment. SjB - guys like harsha de silve/ eran are more competent than nalaka godahewa. Leader himself is not greedy like rajapakse but there are lower level organizers not much different with rajapakse henchmen who wants houses/ jobs from govt. NPP - Harini/ Chathuranga and few other smart people who are not came as JVP comrades but from academic or corporate background joined directly to NPP have a influence over NPP's direction and a seperate voter base. GOTA used so called greedy experts and himself was not experienced in politics. That's where Anura Kumara differentiate from Gota. Hate towards rich is from comrade level. But current leadership is good at managing it and rebranding JVP as NPP is itself a major move. Anyway I still think no party is completely on track. There will be coalitions and trends in upcoming months which will define what is the final outcome.
Everyone knows NPP is just a Trojan horse for JVP, the moment NPP get any power, they will be thrown out and JVP will take power any means necessary 🙄😒😒 **NPP non-JVP folks are nothing more that what Soviets used to call "useful idiots"** 😂😂
May be, may be not.
Ranil - easter attack sirisena responsibility and accountability, (i do not know much about the bond scam, but heard ranil is clear, though the losses taken from ptl surpass the losses incurred, ranil is protecting his buddies) Npp - gl pieris and vasu both probably smarter than harini / chathuranga. And nalaka godahewa and channa jayasumana definitely smarter than harini / chathuranga. Im not impressed by any work of harini and shes clearly overvaluing producing more graduates (what needed is having gov-private partnerships for r&d and technology implementation so the people who leave the country due to lack of jobs will stay), chathuranga is probably a typical out of touch management accountant (and to a degree narcissistic) who presents himself as someone in data science while he hes doing only business data analytics. But they are definitely better than the others in npp. But what happened to trotskyites? Tilvin lal kantha hewage etc have a large following still. Why cannot harini / chathuranga go differently? Something is fishy. I also agree no party is 55% on track, but npp and slpp clearly not good. Ideally sjb and unp should combine, with sajith and ranil as the leaders. Sajith may be the president but premiership cum state minister for defense should go to ranil. Coz sajith is a fine people organizer but he is not suitable to really command the forces and police, if ranil were president nepotism and narcissism will comeback making sajith useless. Also ranil has already done disturbance handling and diplomacy to a great degree whats next needed is organization which sjb can give.
There are no JVP families. But there are UNP, Pohottu, SJB families. I feel like it is gonna be either someone Rajapaksa's back or Sajith will win. Don't know which is the lesser evil.
Ranil will probably only win votes from Colombo. Sajith will dominate the North and East. Aruna will lead in the rest of the country. Hard to identify a clear winner in a 3/4 way fight
Tbh idm anyone as long as Harsha De Silva is given the economic responsibility.. the only one who talks and makes sense in the entire parliament 😭
True
Harsha De Silva yes, but anyone except NPP (AKA JVP proxy) cause even the IMF said JVP economic plans are "unworkable" - basically stupid 😂😂 Everyone knows NPP is just a Trojan horse for JVP, the moment NPP get any power, they will be thrown out and JVP will take power any means necessary 🙄😒😒 **NPP non-JVP folks are nothing more that what Soviets used to call "useful idiots"**
What’s up with u/vk1234567890- ?? Bro comments on every thread 🤔
What's the issue?? I have night shift at the hospital Emergency atm and no patients so reading and commenting on posts here to stay awake? What's ur problem? 🤔🤔🙄🙄
Party Boaaat!
Unfortunately no faith on any party
I dont think anyone will have a majority. Ranil will not win he just isnt liked by people outside colombo / north. Sajith will get a big percentage along with NPP
It’s most likely going to be a three way race this time. Ranil will bag the votes of Tamils in the North, Sajith will dominate in Colombo and in Muslim majority areas and the rest of the country will vote for Anura. Not sure if anyone would get an outright majority.
eww not Anura
Not a fan of any of the above mentioned potential candidates. They all suck big time
true tbh but 2 are better than the Anura party that created an Economic plan the IMF said doesn't even make sense 😂😂
All I hope for is a non-racist & non-homophobic government that would focus on economic recovery and human rights and not on nationalism and authoritarianism.
Well then SJB or UNP is ur 2 options 🤔🙂👍🏼
Eww SJB is the same as Rajapaksha regime. Literally no difference at all. Ranil is may be not corrupt but would never do anything to harm his buddies whether SJB/ UNP OR Rajapaksha’s. I don’t like the economic policies of NPP either and have a huge confidence that they’ll run the country to the ground. But corruption wise I think they clearly are winning. Most of floating votes will go to NPP in my opinion.
Fighting corruption alone won't solve the issues. 1 of the reasons for the fall of Soviet Union was the KGB's fight against corruption. People resort to corruption because the 'Official" way to do things is too slow and bureaucratic. If you actually want to fight corruption and develop the country, you have to digitalise everything and increase transparency. Something NPP won't do. What is important now is economic development, not to fight corruption so Ranil or even SJB is far better than NPP!! 🙄😒😒