Marxist Leads Presidential Vote as Sri Lanka Rejects the Old Order
WEB5 hours ago · Sept. 21, 2024, 11:09 p.m. ET. The Marxist candidate, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, led the early counting in Sri Lanka’s presidential elections on Sunday, riding a wave of popular anger at the ...
Sri Lanka election: Marxist-leaning Dissanayake leads early vote …
WEB3 hours ago · COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — 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 held Saturday is crucial as the country seeks to recover from the worst ...
Officials begin counting votes after polls close in Sri Lanka’s ...
WEB15 hours ago · Political experts say widespread disenchantment with the political old guard — widely blamed for Sri Lanka’s economic instability — could mean no single candidate is able to secure 50 ...
The Incumbent, the Marxist and the Heir: Sri Lanka’s Tight Race …
WEB1 day ago · Sri Lanka is holding a presidential election on Saturday for the first time since its strongman president fled the country two years ago in the face of protests over an ... is a political survivor ...
Sri Lanka votes in first election since protests ousted leader - BBC
WEB1 day ago · Sri Lanka's former president fled the country in 2022 after months-long protests. ... who led the country between 2005 and 2015, he hails from a powerful political lineage, ...
Sri Lanka is yearning to turn a page as country votes in …
WEB1 day ago · The presidential election is a pivotal moment in Sri Lanka's political and economic history, and is the first electoral process taking place after the protests of 2022 that shook the nation.
Voting ends in Sri Lanka to choose a president and a way out of …
WEB20 hours ago · COLOMBO (AP) -- Voting has ended Saturday in Sri Lanka's presidential election as the country seeks to recover from the worst economic crisis in its history and the resulting political upheaval ...
Sri Lanka: The fate of a protest that toppled a president - BBC
WEBJul 8, 2023 · The politically powerful family was popular for crushing the Tamil Tiger separatists in May 2009 and ending the country's 25-year civil war. But now, a year on, it is the protesters who are in...
Turmoil in Sri Lanka - The New York Times
WEBJul 9, 2022 · COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, whose family has dominated politics in Sri Lanka for much of the past two decades, has agreed to resign after months of protests...
Sri Lanka has more women voters than men but no female …
WEB1 day ago · Sri Lanka’s politics have mostly been dominated by men since the island nation introduced universal suffrage in 1931. It’s a trend seen in most countries globally — in 2023, a Pew Research Center analysis found only 13 of the 193 member states of the United Nations had women as the head of government.
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