Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won Sri Lanka’s presidential election as voters rejected the old political ...

Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake won Sri Lanka’s presidential election, the Election Commission announced Sunday.

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka has lifted an island-wide post-election Police curfew at 12 noon on Sunday (22), local media said ...

Voting for the presidential election in Sri Lanka concluded peacefully on Saturday afternoon, with the counting of the votes ...

Dissanayake, 56, the leader of the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna party’s broader front National People’s Power (NPP), ...

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka has extended a post-election islandisland-wide Police curfew by six hours till 12 noon on Sunday (22) ...

Outgoing President Ranil Wickremesinghe – who took office at the peak of the 2022 economic collapse and imposed tough ...

Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Sunday claimed he had won Sri Lanka’s presidential election. “This victory ...

Dissanayake’s victory, rooted in his image as an agent of change, now faces the reality of governing a nation facing ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi extended his regards to the Sri Lankan President-designate Anura Kumara Dissanayake and ...

Dissanayake’s rise reflects widespread voter frustration with established politicians in the wake of Sri Lanka’s 2022 ...

Sri Lanka has gone to a second round of vote counting after none of the candidates met the 50 per cent plus one vote threshold required to win the presidency. President Ranil Wickremesinghe in a shock ...