The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), a formerly marginal communist party, has secured a stunning two-thirds majority in Sri ...

The party of Sri Lanka’s new Marxist-leaning president Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won a majority in parliament, providing a solid mandate for his economic revival program. Mr Dissanayake’s National ...

According to the Election Commission results, Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s National People’s Power Party has won at least 123 of the 225 seats in Parliament.

Mr Dissanayake was elected president in September in a rejection of traditional political parties that have governed the island nation.