Sri Lanka's leftist National People's Party coaltion sweeps to power in parliamentary election
The National People's Power alliance of Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake swept to power after a snap ...
Sri Lanka's new Marxist leader wins huge majority
The left-leaning coalition of newly elected Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake won 159 of the legislature's 225 ...
Putting economic justice over ethnic nationalism, how a once-fringe coalition swept to majority in Sri Lanka Parliament
Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s National People’s Power clinched a commanding two-thirds majority in the ...
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Sri Lanka Counts Parliament Votes as Leader Seeks to Boost Power
Sri Lanka began counting votes in a parliamentary election that will decide whether the nation’s outsider leftist ...
Sri Lanka Election Results: President Dissanayake's NPP secures majority in parliament with a landslide win
Counting of votes in the Sri Lankan snap elections is underway as the country’s President Anura Kumara Dissanayake seeks to ...
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Sri Lanka's first transgender candidate hopes to break political, social barriers
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Chanu Nimesha is contesting Sri Lanka's parliamentary election on Thursday as ... she was the first ...
New leftist president faces first litmus test in Parliament
THE country’s new leftist leader has drawn strong support from an unlikely source as he seeks to expand his three parliamentary seats to a house majority in elections on Thursday.