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

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, whose Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) party had just three seats in the outgoing assembly ...

His JVP party led two insurrections in 1971 and 1987 ... “The opposition is dead,” political analyst Kusal Perera said. “The ...

Millions of Sri Lankans are voting on Thursday in snap parliamentary elections, weeks after the election of left-leaning ...

People in Sri Lanka are voting in snap parliamentary elections, barely seven weeks after choosing a new president. More than ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s Marxists Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)-led ruling National ... However, political analysts say people may prefer to vote for a known candidate in traditional ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake hopes to grab two-thirds of the legislature's 225 seats to press ahead with reforms after ...

Some political parties are asking the public to help them form a formidable Opposition. Whether their wishes will be granted remains to be seen. President Dissanayake and his party, the JVP-led NPP, ...

In the light of the prevailing utterly confused and divided and completely lost electorate, I opine it is a foregone conclusion that no party will get a clear majority to form a stable government at ...

This enabled Anura to spearhead a commendable political renaissance of the JVP led NPP. As is well known , Anura Kumara Dissanayake finished first in the presidential election held on 24 September ...

Molly Crabapple explains the radical history of the Jewish Labor Bund and what can be learned from the history of ...