The 2019 presidential elections in Sri Lanka were held on the 16th of November 2019.The election was hard fought and many promises were made by the respective campaigns. Gotabhaya Rajapaksa emerged as victorious and with the subsequent appointment of Mahinda Rajapaksa as Prime Minister, it was clear that the Rajapaksas were back in charge.
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The present economic crisis is at its core political, and the Sri Lankan government appears to be groping blindly in the dark. This political crisis is evident in the country’s foreign policy as well, which remains largely reactive and short-term and inflected with domestic nationalist ideology. The urgent need for foreign reserves may make the country’s foreign policy look more balanced and diversified when in reality it is making the country more vulnerable in an increasingly unequal relations
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