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.

Sri Lanka's Election Commission Chairman, R.L.A.M. Ratnayake, announced on Sunday that a second preference count will be ...

In a historic first, Sri Lanka’s presidential election went into a second round of counting after no candidate secured over ...

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

Marxist-leaning lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake is on path to becoming the next President of Sri Lanka, leading the other ...

By Uditha Jayasinghe and Sudipto Ganguly COLOMBO (Reuters) -Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake was leading Sri Lanka's ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) is set to become the new President of Sri Lanka as he amassed ...

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 ...

ECONOMYNEXT –Early results of Sri Lanka’s ninth presidential poll held on Saturday showed Marxists Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna ...

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

Early results from Sri Lanka's Presidential election indicate that Anura Kumara Dissanayake, 55, leader of the National ...