The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka on Wednesday ruled President Sirisena’s dissolution of Parliament as illegal. The judgement was delivered by a seven-judge bench, seven weeks after Sri Lanka plunged into an unprecedented political crisis, arguably the biggest since the civil war ended a decade ago.
For over a month now, the country has been left without a legitimate government or cabinet. The economy and the tourism sector, in particular, have taken a huge beating.
The crisis erupted on October 26, when Mr Sirisena sacked incumbent Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, and abruptly replaced him with former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who was until then the President’s chief political rival.
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