COLOMBO: Opposition leader Sajith Premadasa and Marxist Anura Kumara Dissanayake headed to a run-off for Sri Lanka's ...

Mr Wickremesinghe, who took power in July 2022 via a parliamentary vote to cover the remainder of ousted leader Mahinda ...

Sri Lankan authorities begin a second round of vote counting to determine the next president. Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara ...

Sri Lanka has gone to a second round of vote counting after none of the candidates met the 50 per cent plus one vote threshold required to win the presidency. President Ranil Wickremesinghe in a shock ...

The first count in Saturday's election showed Anura Kumara Dissanayake, the 55-year-old leader of the People's Liberation ...

The Marxist has campaigned on a pro-working class and anti-elite platform, which has proven popular with young people.

Dissanayake, 55, leads the left-leaning coalition National People’s Power, an umbrella of civil society groups, professionals, Buddhist clergy and students.

Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake is leading Sri Lanka’s presidential election after knocking out the incumbent ...

Sri Lanka’s presidential election has gone into a second round of vote counting on Sunday for the first time in history as ...

Marxist-leaning lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake leads early official results in Sri Lanka’s presidential election, ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, a Marxist-leaning candidate, is leading Sri Lanka's presidential election with 40% of the votes ...

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