Politics of Sri Lanka
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Sri Lanka is a unitary multi-party semi-presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Sri Lanka is both head of state and head of government. Executive power is exercised by the President on the advice of the Prime Minister and the Cabinet of Ministers. Legislative power is vested in the Parliament.
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Starting from the 1950s, the party system was dominated by the social democratic Sri Lanka Freedom Party and the liberal conservative United National Party for decades. Recently, however, the influence of the two parties has diminished significantly. The Judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature.
The Economist Intelligence Unit rated Sri Lanka a "flawed democracy" in 2022.[1]