A monk-only party formed weeks before a vote could win parliamentary seats.

Evidence

The JHU was organized just two months prior to the elections and barely a week before the deadline for candidates to file their nominations. The party fielded 286 monks. It promoted itself neither as Marxist nor right wing but as one that would ensure good governance within a righteous state (dharmarajya). — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology, 172

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Ultra-nationalist Sinhalese parties drew negligible support until monks ran for parliament; Sri Lankan party leaders compete to subordinate constitutional drafting to monk authority — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 313; A single subaltern group can exercise hegemony over others via a party — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 418

Broader Connections

• Ultra-nationalist Sinhalese parties drew negligible support until monks ran for parliament #corroborates (0.85)
• Sri Lankan party leaders compete to subordinate constitutional drafting to monk authority #qualifies (0.72) — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology, 313
• A single subaltern group can exercise hegemony over others via a party #expands (0.70) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 418