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) ...
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 ...
The results, which some had predicted would return a hung parliament, led to a slightly reduced PA plurality, from 113 seats won in 1994 to 107 in 2000. The election took place during a state of emergency, imposed since May 2000, as a result of the renewed military conflict between the ...
In Sri Lanka, a long list of male candidates has entered the race for the upcoming presidential election. Many of these candidates are seen as proxies, aiming either to support or undermine candidates from other parties. There are credible allegations that state resources are being used to suppor...
election results: Mahinda RAJAPAKSE elected president; percent of vote - Mahinda RAJAPAKSE 50.3%, Ranil WICKREMESINGHE 48.4%, other 1.3% Legislative branch: unicameral Parliament (225 seats; members elected by popular vote on the basis of a modified proportional representation system by district to...
COLOMBO, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka's ousted Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, on Tuesday said that his political alliance would agree to hold a parliamentary election only after a legitimate government is established and all political parties in parliament agree. ...
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.
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Sri Lankans stand in a queue to cast their votes, outside a polling station in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Aug 5, 2020. (ERANGA JAYAWARDENA / AP) COLOMBO - Sri Lankans shrugged off fears of the novel coronavirus and streamed into polling centers on Wednesday to elect a new parliament thatPresid...