New laws: The NPP’s promise of system change faces a test in the powers it seeks to retain.
New laws, old powers
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Macro Media Political Analysis
Two arrests: The cheers and the curses
Two arrests: The law makes its move, but the robes steal the show.
Anojan: New case, familiar wounds
Anojan: A new case brings old distrust back into view
Easter Sunday verdict: Closing the case, reopening the debate
Easter Sunday verdict: The first sees the verdict as a first step; the second sees it as a full stop
The SLPP has to show it can mobilise; the NPP has to show what it can deliver
Rally politics: The boomerang effect
Political momentum around the president’s past and present
NPP rallies: The president becomes the piñata
Namal Rajapaksa arrest: Delayed justice or derailed justice
Namal Rajapaksa arrest: Victim claim fails to arrest justice
Possessive-aggressive: NPP anniversary turns belonging into rejection
Two years in power: The NPP’s past promises become the measure of its present performance
22nd Amendment: The pendulum swings back
22A: The government’s case for longer judicial tenure is losing its appeal
Passing judgment: 22A unsettles the consensus
22A: The problem unites; the proposal divides