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Colombo: Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake-led National People’s Power (NPP) party achieved a landslide victory on Friday in the snap parliamentary election. The sweeping mandate to Mr Dissanayake’s coalition underlines widening support for his leftist policies, giving him the power to push through his plans to fight poverty and graft in the island nation…
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. Source…
Sri Lanka’s election commission declared a previously fringe Marxist politician the country’s president-elect on Sunday after a vote coloured by discontent over the island nation’s response to an unprecedented financial crisis. Anura Kumara Dissanayaka, the 55-year-old leader of the People’s Liberation Front, won the presidency with 42.31 percent of the vote in Saturday’s election, the…
Sri Lanka is all set to hold Presidential elections on Saturday. The island nation has seen a lot of turmoil in the last few years. What is on people’s minds just hours before the big polls? NDTV’s Gaurie Dwivedi finds out. Source link [ad_3]