Sri Lanka set to vote for new parliament

A failure to engage with Tamil demands for justice, accountability, and autonomy will ultimately prevent Dissanayake from ...
Nimesha, 49, is contesting for the Socialist Party of Sri Lanka and one of about 8,000 candidates in the poll, which ...
Sri Lanka's new leftist leader, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, seeks to expand his parliamentary seats with backing from ...
Sri Lanka's election commission declared a previously fringe Marxist politician the country's president-elect on Sunday after a vote coloured by discontent over the island nation's response to an ...
Sri Lanka's first leftist president was ... Self-avowed Marxist Anura Kumara Dissanayaka of the People's Liberation Front (JVP) took his oath at the colonial-era Presidential Secretariat in ...
Sri Lanka elects new president amid economic crisis Election outcome: Anura Kumara Dissanayaka, leader of the ...
Sri Lanka's election commission declared ... the island nation's response to an unprecedented financial crisis. Anura Kumara Dissanayaka, the 55-year-old leader of the People's Liberation ...
In the history of the JVP, Dissanayake has played a particular role in its jettisoning of socialistic demagogy and ...
Anura Kumara Dissanayaka, the leader of the People's Liberation Front (JVP), was sworn in as Sri Lanka's first leftist president on Monday. Dissanayaka, who won 42.31% of the vote in the ...
The vote comes less than two months after Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake won September's presidential election.
The Central Bank of Sri Lanka, which has sole authority to print currency in the island nation, told AFP it had not released ...