COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake is looking to consolidate his party's power in ...

The snap parliamentary elections were called by President Dissanayake after he won polls in September on a promise to combat ...

President Aruna Kumara Dissanayake, who was elected as President in September, is seeking a majority so that most of the policies of his Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna can get parliamentary approval ...

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.

Since their swearing-in in September this year, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s cabinet of three has been campaigning for long-term economic and political reform. To make these major changes and ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake ... told Anadolu. Entry of new faces as veterans shy away Several veteran politicians, ...

Sri Lanka votes to elect a new parliament this week in a snap general election called by its Marxist-leaning president who ...

is expected to be NPP’s main challenger alongside the New Democratic Front — a breakaway group from the party of the Raja­paksa family and backed by former president Ranil Wickremesinghe. Voters who ...

Sri Lanka’s new leftist leader, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, seeks to expand his parliamentary seats with backing from ...

This snap election, called by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, comes at a critical time for Sri Lanka, which is still ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD), having raised ... Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) leader Sajith Premadasa (SP), ...

Sri Lanka is set to hold on Thursday its snap parliamentary election – first after the 2022 economic crisis – amid deployment of nearly 90,000 ...