Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake, whose pro-working class and anti-political elite campaigning made him popular ...

Sept. 22 (UPI) --Anura Kumara Dissanayake, a Marxist, has won Sri Lanka's presidential election following a historic second ballot count. "This victory belongs to us all," Dissanayake, 55, told Sri ...

STORY: Sri Lanka elected its new president on Sunday (September 22): the Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake.The public ...

The election was crucial as the country seeks to recover from the worst economic crisis in its history and the resulting political upheaval.

Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake has claimed he has won Sri Lanka’s presidential election. Dissanayake said in an X ...

A frontrunner in the September 21 presidential vote, Dissanayake’s party, the JVP, twice fought violent battles to overthrow the very Sri Lankan state that he now wants to run. Anura Kumara ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, has been elected as Sri Lanka's next President after the first elections since the country's ...

Sri Lanka has four main contenders for the September 21 presidential election. They are Anura Kumara Dissanayake representing the National People’s Power (NPP), President Ranil Wickremesinghe ...

The Sri Lanka Opinion Tracker Survey by the Institute for Health Policy (IHP) shows Wickremesinghe, running as an independent, at third position. Dissanayake is the leading candidate and Premadasa ...

Dissanayake said that his administration will not seek to punish anyone accused of human rights violations and war crimes during Sri Lanka’s brutal 26-year civil war. He said he would instead ...

The JVP/NPP and its presidential candidate, the JVP leader and ex-cabinet minister Anura Kumara Dissanayake, are often described by the Sri Lankan and international media, as “leftist,” even ...