sri lanka election

Sri Lanka parliamentary election: How the NPP won over country’s ethnic minorities

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Sri Lanka parliamentary election: How the NPP won over country’s ethnic minorities

A vendor displays newspapers for sale at a stall in Kandy on November 16, 2024. Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s leftist coalition won a majority in snap parliamentary polls, provisional results showed on November 15. | Photo Credit: AFP The staggering mandate — over a two-thirds majority — that Sri Lanka’s National People’s Power [NPP] coalition … Read more

Sri Lanka presidential election goes to historic second count

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Sri Lanka presidential election goes to historic second count

Colombo: In a historic first, Sri Lanka’s presidential election on Sunday went into a second round of counting after no candidate secured over 50 per cent vote needed to be declared the winner. The latest results showed Anura Kumara Dissanayake of the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna party’s broader front National People’s Power (NPP) had won … Read more