Sri Lanka presidential election goes to historic second count
WEB2 days ago · News; World; Sri Lanka presidential election goes to historic second count; Sri Lanka presidential election goes to historic second count The latest results showed Anura Kumara Dissanayake of the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna party's broader front National People's Power (NPP) had won 39.52 per cent of the votes counted.
Sri Lanka presidential elections: What victory of Marxist Anura …
WEB2 days ago · Anura Kumara Dissanayake of the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) party’s broader front, the National People’s Power (NPP), won the Sri Lankan presidential elections and is set to be sworn in on Monday (September 23). Santosh Jha, the Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, became the first ...
Anura Kumara Dissanayake Wins Sri Lanka Presidential Election 2024
WEB2 days ago · Dissanayake, head of the once-fringe Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, has clinched Sri Lanka’s presidency, turning the page on decades of political struggle and marking a dramatic shift in the country’s power dynamics. The election, necessitating a first-ever count of second preference votes, saw Dissanayake edge out rivals despite falling short of the 50% threshold, effectively redrawing Sri ...
Who is Sri Lanka's new president Anura Kumara Dissanayake?
WEB1 day ago · Anura Kumara Dissanayake, leader of the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), won 42.3 per cent of the vote in the Sep 21 election.
Marxist leader Anura Dissanayake wins Sri Lanka’s presidential …
WEB2 days ago · Popularly known as AKD, the 55-year-old leader’s win will also be a watershed moment for his Leftist party, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP). Once seen as a radical fringe group, the JVP lost hundreds of its armed rebels to the Sri Lankan army during the brutal uprisings of the 1980s.
In a political paradigm shift, Sri Lanka leans to the left - BBC
WEBThe 55-year-old Dissanayake heads the National People’s Power (NPP) alliance, which includes his Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), or People's Liberation Front - a party that has traditionally ...
Sri Lanka election 2024: Who could be the next president, what’s …
WEB4 days ago · Anura Kumara Dissanayake is from the Marxist party Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), ... Premadesa, in an interview with the Associated Press news agency, said he had already started talks with the ...
Sri Lanka Elects Leftist Leader Dissanayake as President - The New …
WEB2 days ago · The remarkable turnaround for Mr. Dissanayake, after he had won only 3 percent of the vote in 2019, lifts his half-century-old leftist party, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, to the center of a ...
Anura Kumara Dissanayake: Left-leaning leader wins Sri Lanka …
WEB2 days ago · This enabled him to overcome trepidation over the violent past of his political party, the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), which carried out two armed insurrections against the Sri Lankan ...
Could Marxist Anura Dissanayake become Sri Lanka’s next …
WEBSep 13, 2024 · Dissanayake stands out among that set: He is the leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), a party that has never previously been close to national power and that twice led Marxist...