Voters backed Marxist coalition leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake, rejecting an old guard accused of leading the country into ...

Marxist Anura Kumara Dissanayake sworn in as Sri Lanka's president after election that rejected political old guard ...

Dissanayake was born in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka. He completed his primary education at Thambuththegama Central College and ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, leader of the National People’s Power (NPP) party, has been elected as Sri Lanka's new president, ...

It was always going to come to this. The first Sri Lankan election in generations where even a remotely leftist party stood a ...

Sajith Premadasa and Ranil Wickremesinghe follow closely behind, as voters search for a leader who can lead them out of the ...

Sri Lanka, which continues to grapple with an economic crisis, is voting on Saturday to elect a new president. Unlike ...

Leader MP Patali Champika Ranawaka who is backing Presidential Candidate and SJB Leader Sajith Premadasa shares his views on ...

With a record 39 candidates daring to put their names in the hat and the presidential election going to a historic second count (because no candidate managed to secure a clear majority), Sri Lanka ...

It is not just a contest between candidates but a referendum on the country’s future. The next president will have to ...

“Sajith Premadasa, the leader of the opposition Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB), and Anura Kumara Dissanayake ... for the proletariat and in defence of Marxism. Your theory and practice are ...