Cash-strapped Sri Lanka held presidential elections on Saturday, serving as a de facto referendum on the contentious ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, the leader of the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna's (JVP) broader front National People's Power ...

Sri Lanka's crisis has proven an opportunity for Dissanayake, who has seen a surge of support due to his pledge to change the ...

The much maligned executive presidency was established by the United National Party (UNP) Govt of Junius Richard Jayawardene in 1978. JR’s nephew and incumbent president Ranil Wickremesinghe was ...

"Though I heavily campaigned for President Ranil Wickremesinghe, the people of Sri Lanka have made their decision ... Another ...

Both leading candidates in Sri Lanka's presidential election are promising to give land to the country’s hundreds of ...

Sri Lanka held its first presidential election since the 2022 economic crisis, with voting conducted peacefully across 22 ...

Mr. Wickremesinghe, 75, a six-time former prime minister, is a political survivor. His elevation to the presidency in 2022, ...

More than three dozen candidates are vying to lead Sri Lanka out of an economic collapse that led to the 2022 ouster of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.

Sri Lankans ousted Rajapaksa clan from power two years ago. Now they are back in the fray - Heir apparent to the powerful ...

Sri Lanka went to the polls on Saturday for a presidential election, which could impact the country's future after a severe ...

All of the capitalist candidates is today’s election are committed to a continuing the International Monetary Fund’s savage ...