COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The party of Sri Lanka’s new Marxist-leaning President Anura Kumara Dissanayake won a two-thirds majority in parliament, according to official election results Friday, ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A political vacuum continues in Sri Lanka, with opposition leaders yet to agree on who should replace its roundly rejected leaders, whose residences are occupied by ...

Sri Lanka elected its first left-wing president on September 21. Anura Kumara Dissanayake received 42 percent of votes cast, in the first test of public opinion since the island state of twenty-two ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake's victory in Sri Lanka's 2024 presidential election represents a decisive break from the country's post-independence political establishment. His National People's Power party ...

The next 12 to 18 months, when the political and social costs of broader taxation and administrative centralization will ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake won Sri Lanka’s presidential election, the Election Commission announced Sunday, after voters rejected the old political guard that has ...

The wave in Sri Lanka’s south that carried AKD to the presidency then rolled over the north and east after his election. There was a palpable mood of hope invested in the new president and his party, ...

Sri Lanka elected Anura Kumara Dissanayake as its new president on September 21, marking the first time in the country’s history that a candidate outside the two major political parties has won the ...