Srilanka, March 31 -- In 1849 the French writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr penned the phrase "plus ca change, plus ccest la mcme chose"; translated into English it means "the more things change, the more they stay the same." This makes us remember with nostalgia the Presidential elections on 21 September 2024 and the parliamentary elections of 14 November 2024.

Then presidential candidate AKD, promised to change the existing corrupt political system and the political culture of this country and provide a clean government. We the people of Lanka, with great expectations of change, elected first, the National People's Power presidential candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD) as president. Come 14 November the same year, we gave his pol...