“At stake is the ability of newly-elected President Dissanayake to pursue the ambitious agenda that won him election in September,” Alan Keenan, a senior consultant on Sri Lanka for the ...

None of the 38 candidates in the election are women, though Sri Lanka gave the world its first female PM – Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike – in 1960. Polls suggest Dissanayake could be ...

COLOMBO, Nov 14 (Reuters) - 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 ...

However, during the 2024 Presidential Poll ... A record 38 contenders vied for Sri Lanka's presidency. For the first time in the country's history, election officials counted the second-preference ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lankans voted in a parliamentary election Thursday that is key for the country’s new, Marxist-leaning president to consolidate his party’s power and follow through ...

COLOMBO, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's ... island's presidential election on Sept. 21. He is among 39 candidates to get the go-ahead after registering and submitting nomination papers by ...

Sri Lanka election 2024: This is Sri Lanka's first election after its economy collapsed in 2022 and holds importance for India amid growing influence of China. The island nation of Sri Lanka will ...

Polls opened on Saturday (September 21, 2024) in Sri Lanka’s crucial presidential election — the island nation’s first major electoral exercise since its worst economic meltdown in 2022.

The Election Commission of Sri Lanka said counting of postal votes began on Saturday (September 21, 2024) evening, and the final result would likely be out on Sunday (September 22, 2024).

Sri Lanka elections result 2024 Highlights: Anura Kumara Dissanayake, newly elected President and Marxist lawmaker, waves as he departs the election commission office after winning the Sri Lankan ...

With its unprecedented, record-breaking electoral victory at the general election of 2024, the NPP has succeeded in engineering ... and thus forgoing the bedrock of electoral campaigning in Sri Lanka.

As Sri Lanka sank into economic collapse in 2022, a popular uprising led its then president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, to flee the country. This weekend’s election pits his successor, Wickremesinghe ...