Dissanayake NPP — post-Aragalaya governance reset (Sri Lanka)

Doctrine — stated goals and content

JVP/NPP left-populist reformist governing — first Marxist-rooted leadership in Sri Lankan history taking office via the ballot box after the Aragalaya delegitimised the two-party UNP/SLPP duopoly. Core policy content: (i) IMF EFF programme continuation with distributional reframing — 3rd review completed Feb 2025, primary-balance targets retained but wealth-tax debate, PAYE-threshold widening, and targeted Aswesuma cash-transfer expansion changed the composition of adjustment; (ii) 99-point anti-corruption platform — Anti-Corruption Act No. 9 of 2023 operationalisation, CIABOC expansion, asset-declaration and beneficial-ownership registry, Proceeds of Crime Bill; (iii) SOE reform reframed from straight divestment toward 'public-wealth optimisation' — CEB and CPC retained in public ownership with corporatisation track, SriLankan Airlines restructuring-over-sale pivot; (iv) electricity-tariff reductions (Jan 2025) and fuel price-formula adjustments as disinflation flowed through; (v) foreign-policy non-alignment — balancing India (ETCA track), China (Hambantota operational status), and US/EU preference- scheme maintenance; (vi) cabinet of academics and first-time legislators, Amarasuriya as only the third female PM. Coherence line: Marxist-descent party operating within post-crisis IMF envelope, substituting distributional composition and anti- corruption institutional build-out for headline programme rupture. Popularity: Sep 2024 presidential 42.3% first-round (won on preferential count, 55.9% after redistribution); Nov 2024 parliamentary 159/225 — largest single-party mandate since 1977; approval mid-60s in early-2025 IHP polling even as tariff reforms bit.