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The Liberal Party began as a think-tank called the ‘Council for Liberal Democracy’, the first institution to criticize the all embracing statism of the colonial and immediate post-colonial periods. In espousing free economic policies together with wide-ranging political freedoms, the Council, and then the Party, opposed both the authoritarian crony capitalism of the United National Party and the socialism of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party. Both major parties are now in theory in favour of wide freedoms, but to ensure that these are understood and entrenched there is still need of coherent Liberal activism. |
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CALD Statement on Climate Change |
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CALD Statement on Climate Change
We, the representatives of the Democrat Party (Thailand), Democratic Progressive Party (Taiwan), Liberal Party (Philippines), Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia, Singapore Democratic Party, Liberal Party (Sri Lanka), National Council of the Union of Burma, Sam Rainsy Party (Cambodia), Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, and Civil Will Party (Mongolia), full member parties of CALD, on the occasion of CALD Climate Change Conference in Palawan, Philippines, following on our previous workshops in Bangkok, Thailand (28 November-1 December 2011) and Cagayan de Oro/Bukidnon, The Philippines (10-14 February 2012);
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The Liberal Party of Sri Lanka celebrated its 25th anniversary |
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on January 20th 2012 with a seminar at the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute of International Relations and Strategic Studies.
Chief Guest Mrs Srima Dissanayake, UNP Presidential candidate in 1994, whose manifesto was prepared by Chanaka Amaratunga of the Liberal Party on behalf of her husband Gamini Dissanayake, in conversation with Prof Wijesinha, leader of the party.
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LAKBIMA-29TH JANUARY 2012 |
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Welcome Speech of the Secretary General of the Liberal Party, Kamal Nissanka |
At the 25th Anniversary celebrations of the Liberal Party of Sri Lanka,January 20th 2012
We should begin this 25th anniversary celebration of the Liberal Party of Sri Lanka with a moment of silence in memory of the Founder of the Party, Chanaka Amaratunga.
Our Chief Guest, Mrs Srima Dissanayake, Mrs Swarna Amaratunge, President of the Party, and all our distinguished participants and members of the Party, I am honoured to welcome you today to this seminar. Mrs Dissanayake is no stranger to the Liberal Party, for when she stood for election as President of Sri Lanka, in 1994, it was on a manifesto that Dr Amaratunga had drafted for her late husband. Gamini Dissanayake was recognized by our Founder as the best hope for Liberal Democracy in Sri Lanka, and his death was a tragedy from which it took the country a long time to recover, and which his party is still struggling to overcome. Unfortunately in Sri Lanka we tend to forget the past, or rather we dwell on what causes dissension and harm, and learn nothing from the examples of statesmen such as Gamini Dissanayake.
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