Anura Kumara Dissanayake: Left-leaning leader wins Sri Lanka election …
WEB2 days ago · Left-leaning politician Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won Sri Lanka’s presidential election after a historic second round of counting. No candidate won more than 50% of the total votes in the ...
Sri Lanka Elects Leftist Leader Dissanayake as President - The …
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 ...
Left-leaning Anura Dissanayake claims victory in Sri Lanka's ...
WEB2 days ago · Sri Lankan president elect Anura Dissanayake won just 3 per cent of the vote at the 2019 election. (ABC News: Ellie Grounds)In a post on X he wrote, "This victory belongs to all of us.
Sri Lankans reject political establishment and vote for left-wing ...
WEB1 day ago · This presidential election is Sri Lanka's first since it defaulted on its loans in 2022, plunging the country into a crippling economic crisis marked by acute shortages of fuel and other basic goods.
Sri Lanka's left-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake elected president …
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.
Marxist Dissanayake wins Sri Lanka’s presidential election ... - AP News
WEB1 day ago · Updated 8:31 PM PDT, September 22, 2024. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — 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 been widely accused of pushing the South Asian nation into economic ruin.
Sri Lanka election results: Second count to decide presidential …
WEB2 days ago · Sri Lanka’s presidential election has gone into the second round for the first time in its history. No candidate received the mandatory 50 percent of votes, in the first election since an ...
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 ...
Curfew imposed in Sri Lanka amid counting of votes in presidential election
WEB3 days ago · The record for voter turnout in a Sri Lankan presidential election was set in 2019 at 83.72 percent. People wait in a queue to cast their ballots at a polling station in Galle [Idrees Mohammed/AFP]
Sri Lanka votes in first election since protests ousted president
WEB3 days ago · Sri Lankans are voting for a new president in the first election since mass protests sparked by the country's worst-ever economic crisis unseated the leader in 2022. Saturday's vote is widely ...