Dissanayake wins run-off after second round of counting First election since Sri Lanka’s 2022 economic crisis Dissanayake ...

Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won Sri Lanka’s presidential election as voters rejected the old political ...

Sri Lanka's leftist president-elect will be sworn into office Monday after simmering public anger over the island nation's ...

Sri Lankans elected Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake as their new president on Sunday, putting faith in his pledge to ...

Sri Lanka imposed a night curfew across the country Saturday (Sep 21) despite a peaceful presidential election that is ...

The election was the first to be held since protests led to the ousting of former leader Gotabaya Rajapaksa in 2022 amid a ...

Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake won Sri Lanka’s presidential election, the Election Commission announced Sunday.

Sri Lanka’s leftist candidate won a tightly contested presidential election, with voters sweeping out the incumbent for the economic pain they’ve endured in the two years since the country was ...

Sri Lanka's leftist president-elect on Sunday invited his compatriots to help him "rewrite" history in the cash-strapped ...

The political party of the Marxist presidential candidate on track to win Sri Lanka's presidential elections vowed Sunday not ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Sunday claimed he had won Sri Lanka’s presidential election. “This victory belongs to all of us,” Dissanayake said in a post on X ...