Also a key contender is the New Democratic Front, backed by previous President Ranil Wickremesinghe. A nation of 22 million ...

After him, Ranil Wickremesinghe as President managed to negotiate a bailout package worth SUD 2.9 billion with the International Monetary Fund. Meanwhile in this elections, apart from NPP, contestants ...

Sri Lankans are voting in a parliamentary election that is key for the country's new, Marxist-leaning president to ...

Sri Lankans are voting in a parliamentary election that could give President Anura Kumara Dissanayake the mandate to ...

With Sri Lanka's economic recovery hanging in balance, President Dissanayake hopes voters give him a strong mandate for his ...

Sri Lankans on Thursday began voting in the snap parliamentary election, the first major test of the ruling National People’s Power party led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake. The voting is ...

Sri Lanka holds its first parliamentary elections since the victory of its outsider leftist president, in a test of his ...

The other key contender is the New Democratic Front, backed by previous President Ranil Wickremesinghe ... A country of 22 ...

Sri Lankans are voting in a parliamentary election Thursday that is key for the country's new, Marxist-leaning president to ...

Sri Lanka holds a snap election on Thursday which will determine if the South Asian island nation wants to empower its new, ...

The 55-yr-old was elected in September but his National People's Power (NPP) coalition had just 3 of parliament's 225 seats, prompting him to dissolve it and seek a fresh mandate.

He was succeeded by Ranil Wickremesinghe, whose administration cracked down on ... and wealthy democracy like the United ...