Sri Lanka election: President Anura Kumara Dissanayake seeks increased parliamentary strength
Sri Lanka began counting votes cast on Thursday in a snap general election that will decide if the Indian Ocean island nation ...
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Sri Lanka Counts Parliament Votes as Leader Seeks to Boost Power
Sri Lanka began counting votes in a parliamentary election that will decide whether the nation’s outsider leftist ...
Sri Lanka counts votes for new parliament with economic reforms at stake
Sri Lankans began voting on Thursday in a snap general election to decide if the Indian Ocean island nation will give its new ...
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Party of Sri Lanka's new Marxist-leaning president wins majority in parliament
The party of Sri Lanka’s new Marxist-leaning President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won a majority in parliament, according ...
Putting economic justice over ethnic nationalism, how a once-fringe coalition swept to majority in Sri Lanka Parliament
Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s National People’s Power clinched a commanding two-thirds majority in the ...
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Sri Lanka's first transgender candidate hopes to break political, social barriers
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Chanu Nimesha is contesting Sri Lanka's parliamentary election on Thursday as ... she was the first ...
New leftist president faces first litmus test in Parliament
THE country’s new leftist leader has drawn strong support from an unlikely source as he seeks to expand his three parliamentary seats to a house majority in elections on Thursday.