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Colombo: New Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s party was set for a landslide victory in snap legislative elections, initial results showed Friday. With more than half the ballots in Thursday’s parliamentary elections counted, Dissanayake’s National People’s Power (NPP) coalition party had taken an unassailable lead with 63 percent of votes, Election Commission results showed….
Colombo: New Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s party was set for a landslide victory in snap legislative elections, initial results showed Friday. With more than half the ballots in Thursday’s parliamentary elections counted, Dissanayake’s National People’s Power (NPP) coalition party had taken an unassailable lead with 63 percent of votes, Election Commission results showed….
Sri Lanka’s first leftist president was sworn into office Monday vowing to restore public faith in politics after anger over the island nation’s unprecedented economic crisis propelled him to a landslide poll win. Self-avowed Marxist Anura Kumara Dissanayaka of the People’s Liberation Front (JVP) took his oath at the colonial-era Presidential Secretariat in Colombo after…