ISAS Insights

On 13 December 2018, the seven-judge bench of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka ruled that President Maithripala Sirisena’s decision to dissolve the parliament on 9 November 2018 is unconstitutional and that it cannot be dissolved until it completes four and a half years of its term. Following this landmark decision, Mahinda Rajapaksa resigned from his post and Ranil Wickremesinghe was reinstated and sworn in as the legitimate Prime Minister. The 50-days of political crisis has seemingly come to an end. This paper examines the aftermath of the political crisis.