Sri Lankan Leader’s Leftist Coalition Wins Elections
The National People’s Power won a parliamentary election that will allow the country’s new president to unroll his reform agenda, including broader welfare assistance.
Landslide win for new Sri Lankan president's left-leaning coalition
The left-leaning alliance of Sri Lanka's new leader has secured a landslide victory in the country's snap parliamentary elections. Official results show President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's National People's Power (NPP) coalition scored a two-thirds majority in parliament,
Sri Lanka president gets resounding mandate to drive forward recovery
Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's sweeping coalition election win this week underlined widening support for his leftist policies, but he faces the test of steering the nation's recovery from a financial crisis with an inexperienced set of lawmakers.
Landslide win for Sri Lanka president's leftist coalition in snap polls
Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's leftist coalition won a landslide victory in snap legislative elections, results showed Friday, as voters repudiated establishment parties blamed for triggering an economic crisis.
Party of Sri Lanka’s new Marxist-leaning president wins two-thirds majority in Parliament
Sri Lanka’s economic upheaval led to a political crisis that forced then-President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to resign in 2022.
Sri Lanka’s new president with Marxist-leanings wins two-thirds majority in parliament
The party of Sri Lanka’s new Marxist-leaning President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won a two-thirds majority in parliament.
Sri Lanka's leftist National People's Party coaltion sweeps to power in parliamentary election
The National People's Power alliance of Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake swept to power after a snap ...
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Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Sri Lanka's powerful new president
Sri Lanka's new President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is a man who divides opinion. On the one hand, he is hailed by supporters for playing a crucial role in crushing the Tamil Tiger separatist rebels and ...
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Sri Lankan lawmakers elect unpopular prime minister as new president Sri Lankan lawmakers have elected the country's unpopular prime minister as their new president. Sri Lanka’s acting president ...
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Sri Lankan leader seeks to win mandate in polls
The 55-year-old hopes to grab two-thirds of the legislature's 225 seats to press ahead with reforms after the South Asian ...
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Sri Lanka: President Gotabaya Rajapaksa flees the country on military jet
Gotabaya Rajapaksa has fled Sri Lanka ahead of his expected resignation as president President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has fled Sri Lanka on a military jet, amid mass protests over the island's ...
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Sri Lanka crisis: How President Gotabaya's rule ended in a Singapore hotel
That was the last presidential ride of 73-year-old former Sri Lankan army lieutenant colonel-turned-politician Gotabaya Rajapaksa, once a hero to his people as the steadfast defence secretary who ...
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Buddhist nationalists claim victory in Sri Lankan election
“Now that ideology has won.” Gnanasara and other members of his Bodu Bala Sena, or Army of Buddhist Power, campaigned hard for new President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Rajapaksa is a former defense ...
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Sinhalese Leviathan: How Gotabaya Rajapaksa Is Remaking Sri Lanka
It has been now a year since Gotabaya Rajapaksa claimed the presidency of Sri Lanka. Rajapaksa’s ascent to the high office had been a process in the making: The populace was weary of the ...
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Sri Lanka president's party headed for landslide: early results
New Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's party was set for a landslide victory in snap legislative elections, ...
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Sri Lanka’s Political Shift: Dissanayake’s 2024 Victory Marks New Era
In mid-2022, the economic crisis culminated in widespread civil unrest, encapsulated by the Aragalaya movement — a mass protest that ultimately forced Gotabaya to flee the country and resign from ...
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Exploiting Easter Sunday attacks for political purposes must stop
This has however not prevented politicians from exploiting the attack for their own benefit. Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) used it to the maximum at the presidential ...