Multiparty governance, IMF agreement and human rights risks

• Published date: 09 August 2022
• Publication title: Daily Financial Times

Most of the parliamentary Opposition having met with President Ranil Wickremesinghe over the last week, a week that saw escalating repression of the Aragalaya protesters, some have applauded the 'All/Multi-Party Governance' arrangement that the President has proffered to engage them in the task of economic stabilisation, reform and recovery.

The main Opposition the SJB's requests at the meeting for the revocation of the recently imposed Emergency regulations and a halt to the arrests, were not presented as conditional to...