Anura Kumara Dissanayake: Left-leaning leader wins Sri Lanka election …
WEB2 days ago · The election on Saturday was the first to be held since mass protests unseated the country's leader, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, in 2022 after Sri Lanka suffered its worst economic crisis. In a political ...
Marxist Dissanayake wins Sri Lanka’s presidential election ... - AP News
WEB1 day ago · Updated 2:24 AM PDT, September 22, 2024. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake was leading Sri Lanka’s presidential election after knocking out the incumbent liberal President Ranil Wickremesinghe from the race, as officials on Sunday began a second round of vote counting for the first time in the nation’s ...
Sri Lanka's new leader appoints the first ... - Associated Press News
WEB3 hours ago · Updated 6:11 AM PDT, September 24, 2024. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Tuesday sworn in an opposition lawmaker as his prime minister, making her the country’s first woman to head the government in 24 years. Harini Amarasuriya, 54, a university lecturer and activist, comes from a similar ...
Sri Lanka election results: Marxist-leaning Dissanayake elected as ...
WEB1 day ago · Gabrielle Fonseca Johnson/Reuters. COLOMBO Reuters —. Sri Lankans elected Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake as their new president on Sunday, putting faith in his pledge to fight ...
How a Leftist Jolted Sri Lanka’s Politics and Presidency - The New …
WEB6 hours ago · Reporting from Colombo and Galle, Sri Lanka. Sept. 24, 2024, 5:47 a.m. ET. Two of the front-runners in Sri Lanka’s presidential election were the sons of former presidents. A third contender ...
Sri Lanka Elects Leftist Leader Dissanayake as President - The New …
WEB2 days ago · Reporting from Colombo, Sri Lanka. The Marxist candidate, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, was elected president of Sri Lanka on Sunday, riding a wave of popular anger at the established political order ...
Sri Lanka's left-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake elected ... - Sky News
WEB2 days ago · Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won the most votes in Sri Lanka's first presidential election since mass protests in 2022 saw the country's then president forced to flee and resign.
Sri Lankans reject political establishment and vote for left-wing ...
WEB1 day ago · Voter turnout, according to the Election Commission of Sri Lanka, was about 75 per cent, which is lower than in past elections. Sri Lanka imposed a curfew overnight during ballot counting, which ...
Who is Sri Lanka’s new president Anura Kumara Dissanayake? - BBC
WEB1 day ago · Left-leaning politician Anura Kumara Dissanayake has been elected as Sri Lanka’s next president after he won the debt-ridden country’s first election since its economy collapsed in 2022. The ...
Vote count underway in Sri Lanka's presidential election after …
WEB3 days ago · COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Voting ended in Sri Lanka’s presidential election Saturday as the country seeks to recover from the worst economic crisis in its history and the resulting political upheaval.. The election, contested by 38 candidates, was largely a three-way race among incumbent liberal President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Marxist-leaning lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake and ...
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