Sri Lanka will vote in a snap general election on Thursday, called by new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to secure a majority in parliament to back his policies in the island nation struggling ...

Sri Lanka is set to hold its presidential election on September 21, marking the first electoral process since the nation defaulted on its debt and declared bankruptcy in 2022.

Sri Lanka will hold its presidential election Sept. 21 in a crucial vote that will decide the future course of the South Asian nation still struggling to recover from its economic collapse in 2022 ...

Sri Lanka will hold a presidential election on Sept. 21 that will likely be a test of confidence in President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s efforts to resolve the country’s worst economic crisis.

Sri Lanka’s election commission on Monday set the country's Parliament elections for June 20, invoking a hitherto unused legal provision to avoid a possible constitutional crisis if the country ...

Sri Lankans head to the polls on Sept. 21 for the country’s first presidential election since public protests forced the island nation’s last elected leader from office in 2022.

Officials check documents of a voter as he arrives to cast his ballot at a polling station during Sri Lanka's presidential election in Colombo on Sept. 21, 2024. ... The Day in Photos .

Sri Lankans voted on Saturday in an election to pick a president who will face the task of bolstering the country's fragile economic recovery following its worst financial crisis in decades.

Ice Cream Day deals LGBTQ suicide prevention ... a presidential candidate from People’s Struggle Alliance during an election campaign in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024.

Over 13,000 polling stations were set up across the country and 250,000 public officials deployed to manage the election, R.M.L. Rathnayake, the head of Sri Lanka’s election commission, told ...