Anura Kumara Dissanayake calls a general election, dissolving the parliament where his party only holds three seats.

This week: Sri Lanka elects a president on a wave of anti-establishment backlash, Germany’s chancellor breathes a sigh of ...

Sri Lanka's new leftist president dissolved parliament on Tuesday and called a snap election as he prepares to renegotiate ...

Sri Lanka's newly elected President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has dissolved parliament to clear the way for a snap general ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake offered his broad leftist coalition as the best hope for a different political culture, one not ...

Sri Lanka’s newly elected president, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, has appointed Harini Amarasuriya as the country’s new prime ...

Sri Lanka's new leftist president is expected to call a snap parliamentary election ahead of his plans to renegotiate the ...

Two years ago, tens of thousands of Sri Lankans rose up against their president and forced him to flee the country ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Sri Lankans voted for a new direction in leadership on Sept. 22, 2024, electing a leftist anti-poverty campaigner as president of the South Asian nation.

"We have deeply understood that we are going to get a challenging country," Dissanayake said. "We don't believe that a ...

In Sri Lanka, Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in as president today, becoming the country’s first leftist leader. He won ...