Mahinda Rajapaksa is a Sri Lankan politician. He served as the sixth President of Sri Lanka from 2005 to 2015;the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 2004 to 2005,2018,and 2019 to 2022;the Leader of the Opposition from 2002 to 2004 and 2018 to 2019,and the Minister of Finance from 2005 to 2015 and 2019 to 2021. He has been a Member of Parliament (MP) for Kurunegala since 2015.
Sri Lankabhimanya Karu Jayasuriya is a Sri Lankan politician. He was the Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. Previously he was Mayor of Colombo from 1997 to 1999,Minister of Power and Energy from 2001 to 2004,Minister of Public Administration and Home Affairs from 2007 to 2008,and Minister of Buddha Sasana,Public Administration,and Democratic Governance in 2015. He has served as Chairman of the Leadership Council of the United National Party (UNP),as well as Deputy Leader of the UNP. He is a member of parliament representing the Gampaha District since 2001. He had served as Sri Lanka's Ambassador to (Germany). As Speaker of Parliament,he also acts as Chairman of the Constitutional Council.
His Excellency Mahinda Buddhadasa Samarasinghe is a former MP and the current Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the United States and Mexico and High Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago.
Dinesh Chandra Rupasinghe Gunawardena is a Sri Lankan politician who served as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 2022 to 2024. He also held the positions of Minister of Public Administration,Home Affairs,Provincial Councils and Local Government. Gunawardena has been leader of the left-wing Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP) party since 1983,was briefly the de facto leader of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna from 2022 to 2023,and has taken cabinet positions under several previous governments,including Leader of the House from 2020 until 2022.
Mallawa Arachchige Gamini Jayawickrama Perera was a Sri Lankan politician. He was a United National Party member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka for the Kurunegala District between 1994 and 2020,and had previously represented Katugampola in the National State Assembly from 1977 to 1989. Perera served many cabinet positions in various Sri Lankan governments,including being the Minister of Buddha Sasana,Minister of Wayamba Development,Minister of Sustainable Development and Wildlife,Minister of Food Security and the Minister of Irrigation and Water Management. Perera also briefly left national politics to become the Chief Minister of the North Western Province and serve in the North Western Provincial Council. Perera helped represent Sri Lanka's interests internationally as the chairman of United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific,a position he was elected to in April 2016. Furthermore,he held the position of chairman of the United National Party during a significant period of his career.
Maithripala Yapa Sirisena is a Sri Lankan politician who served as the seventh president of Sri Lanka from 9 January 2015 to 18 November 2019. Sirisena is Sri Lanka's first president from the North Central Province of the country and does not belong to the traditional Sri Lankan political elite. He entered as a member of parliament from Polonnaruwa back in 2020 and ended his tenure in 2024.
Johnston Xavier Fernando is a Sri Lankan politician,former Cabinet Minister,Chief Government Whip and a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka from the Kurunegala District. He belongs to the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna. He is considered a leader of the Rajapaksa loyalist mobs that carried out violent attacks against peaceful protestors during the 9 May 'Black Monday' incident of the 2022 Sri Lankan Protests. He lost his parliamentary seat in 2024.
Wijeyadasa Rajapakse,MP,PC is a Sri Lankan lawyer and politician. He was the Minister of Justice from 2022 to 2024 and from 2015 to 2017. He was the prime minister's nominee for the Constitutional Council of Sri Lanka.
Basil Rajapaksa is a Sri Lankan-American politician. He is a former Minister of Finance and Member of Parliament for the national list.
Weerasangilige Wimal Weerawansa is a Sri Lankan politician,Member of Parliament and current leader of the National Freedom Front (NFF). Weerawansa has served many cabinet positions,including Minister of Industries from 2020 to 2022,Minister of Small and Medium Business and Enterprise Development,Industries and Supply Chain Management from 2019 to 2020,Minister of Housing and Social Welfare in 2018 and the Minister of Construction and Housing from 2010 to 2015.
Lohan Evindra Ratwatte is a Sri Lankan politician. He is the State Minister of gem and jewelry and a Member of Parliament from the Kandy District. He is the eldest son of General Anuruddha Ratwatte,former cabinet minister and deputy defense minister.
The Ministry of Health is the central government ministry of Sri Lanka responsible for health. The ministry is responsible for formulating and implementing national policy on health,nutrition,indigenous medicine and other subjects which come under its purview.
The 15th Parliament of Sri Lanka was the meeting of the Parliament of Sri Lanka with its membership determined by the results of the 2015 parliamentary election,held on 17 August 2015. The parliament met for the first time on 1 September 2015 and was dissolved on 3 March 2020.
Mohamed Mujibur Rahman is a Sri Lankan politician and National List Member of Parliament. He previously served as a member of the Western Provincial Council for six years before being elected to parliament in 2015. Rahman resigned his seat in parliament on 19 January 2023 to run for Mayor of Colombo,but was reappointed to parliament in 2024.
Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 5 August 2020 to elect 225 members to Sri Lanka's 16th Parliament. 16,263,885 people were eligible to vote in the election,31.95% of whom were young voters.
The third Sirisena cabinet was a short-lived central government of Sri Lanka led by President Maithripala Sirisena during the 2018 constitutional crisis. The cabinet and the prime minister was declared as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka.
The 16th Parliament of Sri Lanka was the meeting of the Parliament of Sri Lanka with its membership determined by the results of the 2020 parliamentary election held on 5 August 2020. The parliament met for the first time on 20 August 2020 and was dissolved on 24 September 2024.
Jeevan Thondaman is a Sri Lankan politician,former Member of Parliament and Cabinet minister.
Diana Gamage is a Sri Lankan politician and businesswoman. She was a former State Minister of Tourism and Member of Parliament.
