COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The party of Sri Lanka’s newMarxist-leaning President Anura Kumara Dissanayakewon a two-thirds majority in parliament, according to official election results Friday, providing a strong mandate for his program for economic revival. Dissanayake’...
Sri Lanka, on Nov. 14, 2024. Voting closed in the Sri Lankan parliamentary election on Thursday at 4 p.m. local time (1030 GMT) and the counting of ballots will start by 4:30 p.m., according to the Sri Lankan Election Commission. (Photo by Gayan Sameera/Xinhua) ...
In Sri Lanka, many people are fed up with the way the established ruling classes and their protégés govern. Their methods have spread and intensified corruption, waste, and mismanagement, even resorting to criminal means. During the pre-election period, providing material incentives such as money...
Jayampathy Wickramaratne, one of Sri Lanka’s foremost constitutional law experts and a member of Parliament representing Wickremesinghe’s United National Front coalition, said he and other coalition delegates met with the chairman of Sri Lanka’s Election Commission on Saturday and urged him not ...
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election results: Gotabaya RAJAPAKSA elected president; percent of vote - Gotabaya RAJAPAKSA (SLPP) 52.2%, Sajith PREMADASA (UNP) 42%, other 5.8% Legislative branch description: unicameral Parliament (225 seats; 196 members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by proportional representation ...
Tourism Vijitha Herath confirmed that 59 Sri Lankans serving in the Russian Army have died in the Ukraine war. Reports from the Sri Lankan Embassy in Russia stated that 554 Sri Lankans were recruited, with no evidence of forced recruitment. The information was revealed in Parliament today (7...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka--Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake leads early official results in Sri Lanka's presidential election, according to tallies released on Sunday by the Election Commission, but he is still short of the 50% needed for victory.
The election was a battle of prestige for both the BJP and AAP, given Delhi’s symbolic importance as the country’s capital. The city, a federally-administered territory, was governed by the AAP since 2013, with voters backing its strong record of welfarism. But the party and its lea...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s exemption of a luxury tax from cabs was not linked to attempts to give vehicles to members of parliament, Cabinet spokesman, Nalinda Jayatissa said. “Cabs are not only vehicles used by parliamentarians,” Minister Jayatissa said. “They are used for economic activ...