Sri Lanka’s is now heading towards authoritarianism , which the country ranked at 109 in world audits on democracy, only 19 notches short of Zimbabwe ranked at 136, the UNP charged in Parliament today.
He was participating in the debate on the 2012 budget, UNP MP Mangala Samaraweera said , Bosnia had been ranked 77, Malawi 82, Uganda 91, Nigeria 93 and Republic of Congo 97.
In a hard hitting speech, Mr. Samaraweera said that with the fall of what he termed as the well-entrenched dictatorship in Libya, the march towards a more democratic world order seems to gather momentum in most parts of the world.
“Many commonwealth countries in Asia and Africa have also chosen democracy as their model of governance during the last two decades while the Arab spring saw the stunning fall of some autocracies entrenched in power for several decades culminating in the demise of the Libyan dictator a few weeks ago.
Even countries like Rwanda, which was at one time synonymous with genocide after a civil war which killed one million people is one of the fastest growing countries in Africa, thanks to unprecedented political and economic reforms,” he said