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Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance

Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පොදුජන සන්ධානයஶ்ரீ லங்கா பொதுஜன சுதந்திர கூட்டமைப்பு
SLPFA
Mahinda Rajapaksa
Maithripala Sirisena
Sagara Kariyawasam
31 October 2019
5 April 2022
United People's Freedom Alliance
Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (Pro-Rajapaksa faction)New Democratic Front (Pro-Ranil faction)Sarvajana Balaya (Anti-Rajapaksa faction)
Big tentFactions:Social democracySocialismCommunismSinhalese nationalismAnti-federalismAnti-imperialism
Big tentFactions:Centre-left to far-left
podujanasandanaya.orgpodujanaalliance.org
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The Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance (abbreviated SLPFA; Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පොදුජන සන්ධානය, romanized: Śrī Laṃkā Nidahas Podujana Sandhānaya; Tamil: ஶ்ரீ லங்கா பொதுஜன சுதந்திர கூட்டமைப்பு, romanized: Śrī laṅkā Potujaṉa Cutantira Kūṭṭamaippu) was a political alliance led by the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna formed in 2019. Initially, the alliance consisted of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and fifteen smaller parties.

Since 5 April 2022, the alliance has been functionally dissolved, after many of the SLPP's former allies left the SLFPA to join the opposition amidst the Sri Lankan economic crisis and 2022 Sri Lankan political crisis.

On 31 October 2019, seventeen parties including the SLPP and SLFP signed an agreement at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute in Colombo to form the Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance. The seventeen parties included:

The alliance supported SLPP candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa in the 2019 presidential election. It had planned to contest the 2020 parliamentary election under the chair symbol, the symbol of a previous SLFP-led alliance, the People's Alliance. However, in February 2020 the alliance chose to contest the election under the flower bud symbol of the SLPP.

On 5 April 2022, amidst the Sri Lankan economic crisis and 2022 Sri Lankan political crisis, many of the SLPP's former allies left the SLFPA to join the opposition.

Election year	Votes	Vote %	Seats won	+/–	Leader	Result for the party
6,853,690	59.09%	145 / 225	50	Mahinda Rajapaksa	Government

Election year	Candidate	Votes	Vote %	Result
Gotabaya Rajapaksa	6,924,255	52.25%	Won

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