Party of Sri Lanka's new president wins majority in parliament | AP News
19 hours ago · COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The party of Sri Lanka’s new Marxist-leaning President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won a majority in parliament, according to official election results Friday, providing a solid mandate for his program for economic revival. Dissanayake’s National People’s Power Party won at least 123 of the 225 seats in ...
Sri Lanka Election Results 2024: JVP Wins Parliament Control, …
16 hours ago · The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), a formerly marginal communist party, has secured a stunning two-thirds majority in Sri Lanka’s parliament, winning 160 seats and marking the first such victory under proportional representation. In a dramatic shift, Tamil-majority regions like Jaffna backed the Sinhala-Buddhist party while traditional powerhouses including the Rajapaksa family were ...
Sri Lanka: Left-leaning leader's coalition secures landslide victory
19 hours ago · 15 November 2024, 03:51 GMT. Updated Just now. The alliance of Sri Lanka's new leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake is headed for a landslide win in the country's snap parliamentary elections based on ...
Voting ends in Sri Lanka's parliamentary election that's key for …
1 day ago · COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankans voted in a parliamentary election Thursday that is key for the country’s new, Marxist-leaning president to consolidate his party’s power and follow through on promises of economic recovery.. Voting ended at 4 p.m. local time with more than 17 million people eligible to vote.
Sri Lankan Leader’s Leftist Coalition Wins Elections
13 hours ago · Nov. 15, 2024, 5:38 a.m. ET. The leftist coalition of Sri Lanka’s new president has won the country’s parliamentary elections, giving him a clearer mandate to broaden welfare programs after ...
Landslide win for Sri Lanka’s leftist coalition in snap general ...
20 hours ago · The Election Commission of Sri Lanka said on Friday that Dissanayake’s National People’s Power (NPP) coalition secured a two-thirds majority in parliament, winning 159 of 225 seats, a huge ...
Sri Lanka parliamentary elections 2024: What’s at stake?
1 day ago · By Sarah Shamim. 14 Nov 2024. Sri Lankans will cast ballots in a snap parliamentary election on Thursday, months after electing a Marxist-leaning president in the Indian island nation’s first ...
Sri Lanka parliamentary poll: President Dissanayake’s NPP gets …
1 day ago · Sri Lanka’s National People’s Power of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Friday (November 15, 2024) swept the parliamentary elections by winning a two-thirds majority in the parliament ...
Sri Lanka parliamentary elections: President Dissanayake's left …
10 hours ago · Sri Lanka parliamentary elections: President Dissanayake's left-leaning alliance wins in landslide Majority for National People's Power will help Mr Dissanayake push on with promised reforms in crisis-hit nation
Party of Sri Lanka's new Marxist-leaning president wins majority in ...
17 hours ago · The party of Sri Lanka's new Marxist-leaning President Anura Kumara Dissanayake took a large lead Friday in early results from the parliamentary elections, in an apparent solid mandate for his ...
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