Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s strong showing reveals voter weariness with leadership that has led to a national economic crisis ...

Sri Lanka’s upcoming presidential election has become a referendum on a $3 billion International Monetary Fund loan program ...

Sri Lanka's Marxist-leaning leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake has taken a commanding lead in the presidential election, winning ...

Sri Lanka's presidential election has entered a second round of counting for the first time in history, as no candidate ...

The latest results showed Anura Kumara Dissanayake of the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna party's broader front National People’s Power (NPP) had won 39.52 per cent of the votes counted.

The latest results showed Anura Kumara Dissanayake of the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna party's broader front National ...

As the leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), a left-wing marxist political party, Dissanayak has framed himself as a man of the people, a fresh face, and a new direction ...

The election commission of Sri Lanka on Sunday ordered the counting of the second preference vote after no candidate secured ...

Cash-strapped Sri Lanka held presidential elections on Saturday, serving as a de facto referendum on the contentious ...

Marxist candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake led the early counting in Sri Lanka’s presidential elections Sunday, riding a ...

This is the first in Sri Lanka’s history that a presidential election goes into a second round of vote counting.