Sri Lanka: Post Election Blues and Reflections · Global Voices
Neha Viswanathan

Photograph by Indi.ca
One has to wonder at the kind of propaganda that ensured that Ranil would lose the elections. Among other things – the boycott by LTTE, and posters like the one posted above. As Indi.ca explains –
This is put up by the SLFP or JVP or somebody. Ranil Wickremesinghe is reputedly gay, and this is a poster of him as Micheal Jackson, surrounded by boys.
Yaaro at La-la Land stayed up impatiently waiting for news from her parents with regards to the election and was disappointed by Ranil losing and Mahinda winning. Morquendi however, asks if the elections were actually free and fair
Mahinda did win the South. There's no question about that. But just how much did vote rigging effect the result? Well, not much really. But then, the margin between the two candidates is not much either is it? So did the vote rigging in the South have an impact on the result of the election?
Morquendi also asks some other uncomfortable questions about the implications of Ranil winning on votes that were largely Sinhala, and asserts that the victor for Ranil means a defeat for Sri Lanka – the Sri Lanka that has both Sinhala and Tamil people. Indi on why he thinks Ranil lost. He has more on the LTTE disenfranchising the people they claim to represent.
Pickled Politics states the election result as the end of a dynasty in Sri Lankan politics.
In a vein similar to its neighbours, Sri Lankan politics revolves around personalities rather than policies. Votes are cast out of loyalty, for either familial or personal reasons – it’s a known fact that corruption, with it’s financial and protective privileges, will seep through to the party that wins, so politicians are required to work a different angle to make sure the license to import luxury foreign cars on a tax-exemption is theirs and theirs only!
Deane's Dimension has posts on why the Sri Lankan blogosphere seems to be pretty upset about Ranil's loss, and why it's difficult to understand LTTE's sudden and unacceptable boycott of the election.