Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership
Sri Lanka Parties

Also see Sri Lanka Ministers

1960-93  Chairperson   of Sri Lanka Freedom Party Sirimavo R.D. Bandaranaike
1993-2000 Party President
1965-70 Leader of The Opposition
1988-94 Leader of The Opposition
She was Prime Minister 1960-65, 1970-77 and 1994-2000. She lived (1916-2000)

1984-86 Vice-President  of Sri Lanka Maha Jana Party Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumarantunga
1984-86 President of SLMJP
1988-93 Leader of United Socialist Alliance
1993- Leader of People’s Alliance and Deputy Leader of Sri Lanka Freedom Party
She was  Chief Minister of the Colombo Province 1993-94, Prime Minister 1994 and President 1994-2005. Her husband Vijaya K. was assonated 1988, mother of 2 daughters, Daughter of the Prime Ministers Solomon and Sirivamo Bandaranaike.(1945-)

1994-99 Co-founder and Leader of Democratic United National Front (DUNLEF) Srimani Athulathmudali
She was Minister of Transport, Highways, Environment and Women's Affairs 1994-97

2000 Acting Joint Leader of Sri Lanka Muslim Congress Fariel Ashraff
2001 Co-Leader of the National Unity Alliance
She was elected after her husband, MHM Ashraff, a government minister, had been killed in a helicopter crash. A couple of months later she became Cabinet Minister

Last update 21.02.06