The National People’s Power (NPP) won 14 of the  18 seats allocated to the Colombo district in parliament. The Samagi Jana ...

Sri Lanka's new Marxist-leaning president wins over a two-thirds majority in parliamentary election.

By Uditha Jayasinghe and Sudipto Ganguly COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's leftist coalition ...

COLOMBO - Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's National Peoples' Power (NPP) party secured a majority in ...

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The NPP won 107 seats, receiving almost 62 per cent or 6.8 million votes in Thursday’s election, putting them past the ...

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's leftist coalition won a landslide victory in snap legislative elections, ...

Colombo: Sri Lanka's National People's Power of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Thursday secured a majority in ...

Sri Lanka's National People's Power party, led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, has secured a majority in the parliament. With 113 seats out of 225, the NPP has achieved 61% of the votes, ...

The win gives leftist president Anura Kumara Dissanayake greater legislative power to pursue policies to alleviate poverty ...

Sri Lankans handed Anura Kumara Dissanayake a thumping win in a snap general election, giving its new leftist president ...

Mr Dissanayake was elected president in September in a rejection of traditional political parties that have governed the island nation.