With Gotabaya Rajapaksa of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) winning the election for the presidentship of our southern island neighbour decisively (in the first round of voting itself in a single preferential vote system), the world is agog about what this means for the country’s future.
The biggest concern is the economy. After the Easter bombings by radical Islamists in April killed more than 200 people and injured over 400, the prediction of every multilateral financial agency was that the country’s GDP growth would slip below the International Monetary Fund's (IMF’s) 2019 forecast of 3.5 per cent and the Asian