National People’s Power leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake arrives at a polling station in Colombo on September 21, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Sri Lanka’s election commission formally announced on Sunday (September 22, 2024) Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake the winner of the Presidential election, defeating incumbent Ranil Wickremesinghe. The commission said on its website that … Read more
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
A couple walks past an election poster showing a portrait of Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, September 16, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP A group of election observers from the European Union and the Commonwealth have arrived in Sri Lanka to monitor the presidential election on Saturday (September 21, 2024). … Read more