Premadasa appears to have taken the majority of the UNP’s citizens with him when he left in 2020. Many people are concerned that he has also abandoned his financial democracy. If he wins, relationships with the IMF will certainly get more difficult, despite the fact that he may never completely scuttle the transformation plan.  ,
His closest rival, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, heads the left-wing Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna ( JVP ) party. He is running for a coalition of events rather than the JVP as an independent, identifying himself as an independent.
Usually for such makeovers, there is a black previous Dissanayake wants voters to ignore. A classic example of Sri Lankan financial populism, ethnic supremacism, and maoism are combined into the JVP platform. The area is dominated by the Sinhala racial group, and the left of its social spectrum has always had a sense of Sinhala majoritarianism about it.
Dissanayake has attempted to make himself appear to have moderated his economy and accepted the need to increase exports in order to cover goods. However, he has vehemently sought the support of those who accuse Wickremesinghe’s reforms of causing a drop in living standards, despite the fact that the crisis ‘ scarring, especially the persistent effects of high inflation, is largely to blame.