2022年9月20日 · What happened in Sri Lanka would never, ever, have happened if Mangala Samaraweera was alive. While the country was clear that Gotabaya Rajapaksa had failed, there was not a credible leader in sight with the vision, courage, and political acumen to come forward with an alternative to Rajapaksa policies instead of a substitute, or Rajapaksa-lite.

2022年9月20日 · What happened in Sri Lanka would never, ever, have happened if Mangala Samaraweera was alive. While the country was clear that Gotabaya Rajapaksa had failed, there was not a credible leader in sight with the vision, courage, and political acumen to come forward with an alternative to Rajapaksa policies instead of a substitute, or Rajapaksa-lite.

Gotabaya Rajapaksa was appointed to the post of Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence in November 2005 by newly elected President Mahinda Rajapaksa. In this capacity, he oversaw the military operation which eventually defeated the LTTE in May 2009. ... UNP MP Mangala Samaraweera claimed that Gotabaya's son illegally occupied a house ...

2021年8月24日 · Tributes and condolence messages have poured in from government and opposition politicians as well as from foreign leaders and diplomats, after former Sri Lankan minister and veteran politician Mangala Samaraweera passed away today at the age of 65

2021年8月26日 · Mangala Samaraweera, a formidable figure in Sri Lankan politics who previously held several ministerial posts, passed away from COVID-19 at a private hospital in Colombo this week. News of his death was met with international tributes from senior political figures worldwide, including the United States, UK, Europe and India. Many of those ...

2021年11月27日 · With the Gotabaya Rajapaksa administration flailing and failing on every front, with the economy in freefall and reconciliation out the window, now more than ever we feel Mangala’s loss. The pain of his passing is made more acute by the knowledge that had he survived his brush with the deadly COVID-19, he might have made a bid for the presidency.

2022年9月20日 · What happened in Sri Lanka would never, ever, have happened if Mangala Samaraweera was alive. While the country was clear that Gotabaya Rajapaksa had failed, there was not a credible leader in sight with the vision, courage, and political acumen to come forward with an alternative to Rajapaksa policies instead of a substitute, or Rajapaksa-lite.

2019年10月18日 · Mangala Samaraweera, Sri Lanka’s finance minister and leading UNP member, called on Sri Lankan voters to reject Gotabaya Rajapaksa and warned that Sri Lankan soldiers may face prosecutions abroad through universal jurisdiction cases if “a Sri Lankan judicial mechanism” is not enacted.

2019年8月11日 · The government quickly reacted to Gotabaya’s candidacy, with Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera tweeting, “Do #SriLankans want to return to the isolation and darkness of the past ...

2022年4月28日 · The finance minister at the time, Mangala Samaraweera, called a briefing to assail the "dangerous" pledge to reduce the value-added tax to 8 per cent from 15 per cent and scrap other levies.