As many as 196 members are to be elected from the 22 districts based on the proportional representation system while 29 would ...

"The result of the election is a foregone conclusion." The outgoing parliament was dominated by the party of former president ...

Former Chief Minister of the Eastern Province Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan alias Pilleyan has been summoned to the Criminal ...

Millions of Sri Lankans are voting on Thursday in snap parliamentary elections, weeks after the election of left-leaning ...

Sri Lankans are voting in snap parliamentary elections on Thursday, with new leftist President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s ...

Sri Lankans are voting in snap parliamentary elections. President Dissanayake's National People's Power (NPP) party seeks a ...

Here is why the upcoming parliamentary election is so significant for newly-elected President Anura Kumara Dissanayake.

Most Sri Lankan electors let their rising choler get the better of ... A two-thirds majority drove President Mahinda Rajapaksa to abuse power to his heart’s content and amend the Constitution to do ...

President Aruna Kumara Dissanayake, who was elected as President in September, is seeking a majority so that most of the policies of his Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna can get parliamentary approval ...

Entry of new faces as veterans shy away Several veteran politicians, including former Presidents Ranil Wickremesinghe, ...

The snap parliamentary elections were called by President Dissanayake after he won polls in September on a promise to combat ...

Sri Lanka votes to elect a new parliament this week in a snap general election called by its Marxist-leaning president who ...