“This report examines the first year and a half of the NPP government in office, as it struggles to live up to its ambitions to remake Sri Lankan politics. It looks at the NPP’s economic policies under continued IMF tutelage, the government’s early moves to fight corruption, the challenges of ending impunity and strengthening rule of law in the face of resistance from vested interests and a powerful security sector, and the government’s tentative moves to foster a meaningful sense of national unity. The report also examines the difficulties the inexperienced NPP has faced in managing the state machinery and the risks the party’s moralistic approach poses to its reform goals. The report draws on dozens of interviews with politicians, social and political activists, business owners, journalists, lawyers, academics and diplomats, roughly half of whom were women, conducted in person and by telephone or email between November 2024 and February 2026.”