Back حزب الحرية السريلانكي Arabic শ্রীলঙ্কা ফ্রিডম পার্টি Bengali/Bangla Sri Lanka Freedom Party German Srilanka Libereca Partio Esperanto حزب آزادی سریلانکا Persian Parti de la liberté du Sri Lanka French Partai Kebebasan Sri Lanka ID Partito della Libertà dello Sri Lanka Italian スリランカ自由党 Japanese 스리랑카 자유당 Korean
The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP; Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂය, romanized: Śrī Laṁkā Nidahas Pakṣaya; Tamil: இலங்கை சுதந்திரக் கட்சி, romanized: Ilaṅkai Cutantirak Kaṭci) is one of the main political parties of Sri Lanka. It was founded by S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike in 1951 and has been one of the two largest parties in the Sri Lankan political arena since. It first came to power in 1956 and has served as the predominant ruling party on a number of occasions. The party is generally considered as having a democratic socialist or progressive economic agenda and is often associated with Sinhalese nationalist parties. The party follows a non-aligned foreign policy but has historically had close ties to socialist nations.