The dramatic increase in the vote for the JVP/NPP is a product of two inter-related processes—the seething hostility and anger of broad layers of the population over the social crisis; and support for the JVP/NPP in sections of the ruling class as the means for suppressing that opposition.

Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in as Sri Lanka's ninth president, promising to bolster the economy and fight corruption. Dissanayake, leader of the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna party, defeated Sajith Premadasa in the recent election.

Following the first elections since the country's economic crisis, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, the leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)'s broader coalition National People's Power (NPP), was elected as Sri Lanka's next President.