Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance

Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance

ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පොදුජන සන්ධානය
ஶ்ரீ லங்கா பொதுஜன சுதந்திர கூட்டமைப்பு
Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පොදුජන සන්ධානය; ஶ்ரீ லங்கா பொதுஜன சுதந்திர கூட்டமைப்பு
Abbreviation	SLPFA
Leader	Mahinda Rajapaksa
Chairperson	Maithripala Sirisena
General Secretary	Basil Rajapaksa
Founded	31 October 2019
Dissolved	5 April 2022
Preceded by	United People's Freedom Alliance
Succeeded by	Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (Pro-Rajapaksa faction); People's Alliance (Anti-Rajapaksa faction)
Ideology	Big tent; Factions:; Social democracy; Socialism; Communism; Sinhalese nationalism; Anti-federalism; Anti-imperialism
Political position	Big tent; Factions:; Centre-left to far-left
Parliament	103 / 225
Website
	podujanasandanaya.org; podujanaalliance.org
	Politics of Sri Lanka; Political parties; Elections;

The Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance (abbreviated SLPFA; Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පොදුජන සන්ධානය, romanized: Śrī Laṃkā Nidahas Podujana Sandhānaya; Tamil: ஶ்ரீ லங்கா பொதுஜன சுதந்திர கூட்டமைப்பு, romanized: Śrī laṅkā Potujaṉa Cutantira Kūṭṭamaippu) was a political alliance led by the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna formed in 2019. Initially, the alliance consisted of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and fifteen smaller parties.

Since 5 April 2022, the alliance has been functionally dissolved, after many of the SLPP's former allies left the SLFPA to join the opposition amidst the Sri Lankan economic crisis and 2022 Sri Lankan political crisis.

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[DM170220-1] Pothmulla, Lahiru (17 February 2020). "SLPP, SLFP to contest polls from Sri Lanka Nidahas Podujana Sandanaya". The Daily Mirror. Colombo, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 19 February 2020.

[2] "BUSINESS TODAY -I Believe in the SLFP". businesstoday.lk.

[3] "Re-nationalizing: New economic policy".

[4] Perera, Jehan. "Prevent Vicious Cycle From Re-Emerging After Election". peace-srilanka.org. The National Peace Council of Sri Lanka. Retrieved 30 March 2018.

[5] "The Politics of Demonizing Federalism and Depicting It as Separatism". Colombo, Sri Lanka: Daily Mirror. Retrieved 31 October 2019.

[6] "Paradox of Pohottuwa's anti-Americanism with US soft diplomacy in Lankan politics". Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Sunday Times. Retrieved 31 October 2019.

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