Sri Lanka’s September 21 presidential election – the first since the protests in 2022 that ousted former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa – has been praised for the lack of election violence and ...

We urge workers, students, youth and rural poor to vote for the SEP in this election to express their support for our ...

Sri Lank's neighbours have to come to terms with the fact that AKD was the democratic choice of the mass people.

We had one mango, we cut it open and it was rotten,” a Colombo tuk-tuk driver remarked of Sri Lanka’s traditionally dominant ...

On September 23, 55-year-old Anura Kumara Dissanayake took oath as Sri Lanka’s ninth Executive President in a modest ceremony at the presidential secretariat. The popular election was the first since ...

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's presidential candidates wrapped up their campaigning on Wednesday, 48 hours before the election, pledging to fix the island country's ailing economy that is ...

“Many Sri Lankan politicians mistakenly believe that public sentiment can be reduced to simple arithmetic. During the run-up to the presidential election, many SJB members insisted that it would ...

In the history of the JVP, Dissanayake has played a particular role in its jettisoning of socialistic demagogy and ...

They also assured close collaboration to advance these shared priorities. The Delegation commended Sri Lanka on the peaceful conduct of the recent Presidential Election. Furthermore, ambassadors from ...

17 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka's Election ... in the lead-up to the election scheduled for Nov. 14. He noted that many of the opinion polls conducted during the Sept. 21 presidential election were ...

The Samagi Jana Balavegaya, led by Sajith Premadasa, Dissanayake's main competitor in the September 21 presidential election, came in second, winning six seats with 7,924 votes. Sri Lanka's ...