Anura Kumara Dissanayake: Left-leaning leader wins Sri Lanka election …
WEB1 day ago · Left-leaning politician Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won Sri Lanka’s presidential election after a historic second round of counting. No candidate won more than 50% of the total votes in the ...
Sri Lanka election: Marxist Anura Kumara Dissanayake becomes president …
WEB9 hours ago · COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in as Sri Lanka’s president on Monday after an election that saw voters reject an old guard accused of leading the country into economic crisis. Dissanayake, 55, who ran as head of the Marxist-leaning National People’s Power …
Sri Lanka election results: Marxist-leaning Dissanayake elected as ...
WEB13 hours ago · Gabrielle Fonseca Johnson/Reuters. COLOMBO Reuters —. Sri Lankans elected Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake as their new president on Sunday, putting faith in his pledge to fight ...
Sri Lanka election: Marxist leader Dissanayake leads early vote …
WEB1 day ago · Updated 2:24 AM PDT, September 22, 2024. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake was leading Sri Lanka’s presidential election after knocking out the incumbent liberal President Ranil Wickremesinghe from the race, as officials on Sunday began a second round of …
Anura Kumara Dissanayake takes oath as Sri Lanka’s next president
WEB8 hours ago · The party remained a peripheral player in Sri Lankan politics and won less than four percent of the vote during the last parliamentary elections in 2020. Dissanayake counts Marxist revolutionary ...
Sri Lanka Elects Leftist Leader Dissanayake as President - The …
WEB1 day ago · Reporting from Colombo, Sri Lanka. The Marxist candidate, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, was elected president of Sri Lanka on Sunday, riding a wave of popular anger at the established political order ...
Anura Kumara Dissanayake sworn in as Sri Lanka's president - BBC
WEB9 hours ago · Until this weekend's vote, all of Sri Lanka's eight presidential elections since 1982 had seen the winner emerge during the first round of counting. This poll has been described as one of the ...
Sri Lankan outsider leftist Dissanayake wins presidential election ...
WEB1 day ago · COLOMBO -- Leftist antiestablishment lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake won Saturday's presidential election in Sri Lanka, shocking a political elite that has dominated power in the South Asian ...
Vote count underway in Sri Lanka's presidential election after …
WEB2 days ago · COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Voting ended in Sri Lanka’s presidential election Saturday as the country seeks to recover from the worst economic crisis in its history and the resulting political upheaval.. The election, contested by 38 candidates, was largely a three-way race among incumbent liberal President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Marxist-leaning lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake and ...
Sri Lanka elects Marxist-leaning Dissanayake as president to fix ...
WEB23 hours ago · Anura Kumara Dissanayake has been declared the winner of the island nation’s presidential election, according to the Election Commission of Sri Lanka. The Marxist-leaning Dissanayake, 55, leader ...