Despite 38 Candidates running for the Sri Lankan Presidential election, the race will be ultimately decided between the major Sinhala-Buddhist candidates Ranil Wickremesinghe, Sajith Premada, Anura Dissanayake and Namal Rajapaksa. According to media predictions, it will be a close race between Ranil, Sajith and Anura. While all of these candidates have different support bases, not only inside of Sri Lanka but also from foreign actors, for the Tamil people in the North-East, every Sinhala-Buddhst candidate will mean a continuation of the Sri Lankan state’s denial of Tamil rights, such as accountability, justice and the call for self-determination of the Tamil homeland. Despite huge divisions among the Sinhala polity, all of the leading Sinhala-Buddhist candidates are united when it comes to protecting Sinhala-Buddhist majoritarianism. They have all vowed to protect the military and will continue to defend the Sri Lankan unitary state. Tamils know that they cannot democratically change a system that is fundamentally flawed by design. That is why the turnout from the Tamil homeland has always been amongst the lowest on the island since the first Presidential elections were held in 1982, a year before the anti-Tamil pogroms of Black July and the start of the armed conflict. To find a new path forward, Tamils need to collectively find a unified position to best represent the demands of the Tamil nation.