Parliament was dissolved as there was no majority, to understand the math behind the decision of Sri Lanka's new President.

Sri Lanka's new President Anura Dissanayake dissolved the Parliament on Tuesday. Mid-term elections will now be held in the country on November 14. The term of Sri Lanka's Parliament was to be completed in August 2025, but leftist President Anura Dissanayake, who took oath as President on Monday, ordered its dissolution.

President Dissanayake had hinted at dissolving the parliament soon even before taking oath. He said that with his victory the mandate of the current parliament has ended. But the real math behind this decision of NPP leader Anura is something else.

If there was no majority then the Parliament was dissolved.

In fact, President Dissanayake's party is in a very weak position in the Sri Lankan Parliament. His party had only 3 seats in the 225-seat Sri Lankan Parliament. In such a situation, it will not only be difficult but impossible to fulfill the promises and claims on the basis of which he won the presidential election and came to power.

Although the President is the head of both the state and the government in Sri Lanka, he will need the support of more and more MPs to run the country smoothly. It will not be easy to divide so many departments and run the bureaucracy with just 3 MPs. Also, getting the bill passed from the Parliament would have been a big challenge for him, because in the 9th Parliament, the SLPP of the Rajapaksa family had a strong majority with 145 seats.

Trying to take advantage of the current wave?

For the first time in Sri Lanka's electoral history, a leftist has been elected as the President, this victory is very important for Anura and his party. The 9 presidential elections held in Sri Lanka since 1982 have never been fair, it is believed that the Election Commission has been working under the pressure of the person in the post of President or his party.

But now Dissanayake is in the President's chair, his party has got about 42 percent votes in the elections, if his party succeeds in repeating this performance in the parliamentary elections then its position will become stronger in the Parliament also.

Would there have been problems if elections were held on time?

Apart from this, Anura Dissanayake has said that there is a need to immediately start talks with the IMF to improve the country's economic condition. Her party started getting public support during the economic crisis movement and people have given her a chance only because of the promises of improving the country's economic condition. Therefore, if Sri Lanka's economy does not improve and inflation does not decrease, the public may get disillusioned with her. In such a situation, if the parliamentary elections were held on time, it would have been difficult for her party to get a majority in the parliament.

What will be the future of leftist politics in Sri Lanka?

This is the reason why Dissanayake announced the dissolution of the Parliament the very next day after taking oath as President. He has divided 15 departments among the 4-member interim cabinet, certainly running the government with such a small cabinet will be a big challenge but he must be hoping that his party performs well in the elections to be held in November because the performance of NPP in the parliamentary elections can play an important role in strengthening President Anura as well as deciding the future of leftist politics in the country.