Democratic Party (Sri Lanka)
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Democratic Party
Prajathantravadhi Pakshaya |
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| Sinhala name | ප්රජාතන්ත්රවාදී පක්ෂය |
| Founder | Sarath Fonseka |
| Leader | Sarath Fonseka |
| Founded | 1 April 2013 |
| Ideology | Liberalism |
| National affiliation | United National Front for Good Governance (2016 - present) |
| Colors | Purple |
| Parliament of Sri Lanka |
1 / 225
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| Sri Lankan Provincial Councils |
17 / 455
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| Election symbol | |
Flaming Torch
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| Website | |
| www |
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Democratic Party is a political party in Sri Lanka led by former army chief Sarath Fonseka. It was registered by the election commission of Sri Lanka in March 2013.
The Democratic Party contested for Provincial council election held on 21 September 2013 for North, North Western & Central Provincial councils. They secured 3 & 2 seats of North western and central councils obtaining 46,114 and 45,239 votes form respective provinces. They surprisingly emerged as third in both councils over JVP. However, they were unable to garner any support from North PC where they obtained only 170 votes.
Democratic Party contested for provincial council elections held on 29 March 2014 and secured 12 seats of two councils. In Southern council 109,032 votes obtaining 3 seats while in western province they got 203,767 votes obtaining 9 seats.
Democratic party got defeated badly in this provisional council election held on 20 September 2014. They could garner only 6076 votes from whole province which was 0.89%. This is the biggest setback for newly established party.
The Democratic Party has declared its support for the opposition common candidate Maithripala Sirisena. With the decision taken some appointed members left the party including Jayantha Ketagoda (MP).
Party leader field marshal Sarath Fonseka has announced that he would contest alone for parliamentary election scheduled on 17 August 2015. Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka contested from Colombo district. Surprisingly DP has faced a massive slide in the election in which they could garner only 28587 votes all over the country resulting in no representation in the 8th parliament of Sri Lanka.
The party joined governing United National Front signing an MOU with Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe on 3 February 2016.
On the 9 February Sarath Fonseka took oath as a Member of Parliament for the seat vacated by the death of M. K. A. D. S. Gunawardana giving the party a seat in the Parliament
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