People's Alliance (Sri Lanka)
The People's Alliance ( PA , Sinhala பொது ஜன முன்னணி , Tamil மக்கள் கூட்டணி , "People's Alliance") was a party alliance of the left political spectrum in Sri Lanka , which existed from 1993 to 2004.
history
The PA was founded in 1993 as an electoral alliance before the parliamentary elections in Sri Lanka in 1994 under the leadership of Chandrika Kumaratunga (SLFP). The founding parties included:
- Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) - the largest and leading party in the Alliance
- Communist Party of Sri Lanka (CPSL)
- Democratic United National Front (DUNF) - a dissident group from the United National Party
- Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP, Lanka Equal Society Party) - Trotskyist group
- Sri Lanka People's Party (SLPP, Sri Lanka Mahajana Pakshaya) - oriented towards social democracy, founded by former members of the SLFP
The electoral alliance won the parliamentary elections in 1994 and the following presidential election in 1994 , ending the government of the United National Party (UNP) in Sri Lanka, which had been in force since 1977 . After the general election in 2000, the PA formed a minority government, which was voted out of office in the election the following year . In 2004, the PA was for the most part in the newly founded United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eur: The Far East and Australasia 2003. Routledge Chapman & Hall, 2003, ISBN 1-85743-133-2 , p. 1353. In various sources 7 to 9 founding parties are given without specifying their names.