Anura Kumara Dissanayake, a Marxist, has won Sri Lanka's presidential election following a historic second ballot count.

Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won Sri Lanka’s presidential election as voters rejected the old political ...

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

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

Marxist-leaning lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake leads early official results in Sri Lanka’s presidential election, according to tallies released on Sunday by the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sri Lanka, which is slowly recovering from its ... A pre-election opinion survey showed Mr Dissanayake was leading in voting preferences at 36%, followed by Mr Premadasa and Mr Wickremesinghe ...

Premadasa and Dissanayake offer contrasting visions. Premadasa, while not advocating for a complete pivot away from China, has emphasized the need for Sri Lanka to safeguard its economic sovereignty.