Muragala | Centre for Progressive Politics and Policy’s (CPPP) Executive Director Harindra B. Dassanayake presented on “Democratic Erosion, Opposition Strategies and Political Polarization in Sri Lanka” at the Opposition Strategies to Counter Democratic Erosion: Learning through Comparative Case Studies, GFDD Cross-hub Collaboration Workshop, Democracy Institute, Central European University, Budapest, May 15-16, 2025.
The workshop’s aim was to deliberate systematic and comparative knowledge on (1) opposition strategies in different countries experiencing democratic backsliding and (2) which factors explain why opposition actors use different strategies, based on a shared theoretical-conceptual framework, with panelists from Mexico, Ecuador, Mauritius, Bangladesh, Hungary, Sri Lanka and Turkey.
