The election is seen as a referendum on President ... Wickremesinghe wants to keep his job; the SLPP wants to mount a comeback. Sri Lanka voters seem to want radical change.

In Sri Lanka, voting is underway to elect the ninth Executive President of country for period of five years. Thirty-eight candidates are contesting the election, whereas about 17 million voters are ...

COLOMBO: (Bernama-Xinhua) Voting for the presidential election in Sri Lanka kicked off on Saturday (Sept 21), with over 17 million registered voters to elect the South Asian country's president ...

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Glamorous Entry and Ignominious Exit After Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s victory in the November 2019 ...

Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh) Source: AAP / Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP ...

Namal Rajapaksa's candidacy comes after his father and uncle fell from power in 2022 due to protests over Sri Lanka's ...

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s leftist President-elect on Sept 22 invited his compatriots to help him “rewrite” history in the cash-strapped island nation after winning a vote coloured by discontent ...

is a reflection of Sri Lanka’s broader societal unrest. He has said that if he wins the presidential election, his government will renegotiate the terms of the IMF loan so that the lives of the ...

Reflections on Perplexity in Sri Lankan Foreign Policy (1990-2024) Since the end of the Cold War, the three geopolitical ...