President Anura Kumara Dissanayake won the presidential election on September 21 in a victory that marked a rejection of the traditional political parties.

Millions of Sri Lankans are voting on Thursday in snap parliamentary elections, weeks after the election of left-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake as president. More than 17 million voters are eligible to cast their ballots,

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake hopes to grab two-thirds of the legislature's 225 seats to press ahead with reforms after the country's economic meltdown in 2022, when then-president Gotabaya Rajapaksa was ousted.

Sri Lanka votes today in a second national election in as many months with a deeply divided opposition struggling to recover from a crushing defeat at presidential polls.

We urge workers, students, youth and rural poor to vote for the SEP in this election to express their support for our international socialist perspective and on that basis prepare for the class struggles ahead.

Sri Lanka votes Thursday in a second national election in as many ... accused of leading the country to its worst economic crisis two years ago. His JVP party led two insurrections in 1971 and 1987, leading to the loss of at least 80,000 lives, but ...

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s President Anura Dissanayake faces a range of key political risks and challenges, particularly given his position as the leader of the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)-led National People’s Power (NPP), a historically leftist alliance.

"We believe that this is a crucial election that will mark a turning point in Sri Lanka," President Dissanayake told reporters after voting in the capital Colombo. The man he defeated in the presidential elections,