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 ...

OPINION- My adopted country of Sri Lanka recently held presidential elections. While I lived there, from 2002 to 2016, Chandrika Kumaratunga was president (1994-2005).

Sri Lanka is set to hold on Thursday its snap parliamentary election – first after the 2022 economic crisis – amid deployment of nearly 90,000 ...

“The result of the election is a foregone conclusion.” The outgoing parliament was dominated by the party of Mr Mahinda ...

Sri Lanka votes for new parliament as President Dissanayake pushes for majority after securing only 42.3% in presidential ...

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

Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Mahinda Rajapaksa, have stayed away from the polls, paving the way for scores of new faces to enter ...

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

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake hopes to grab two-thirds of the legislature's 225 seats to press ahead with reforms after ...

Dissanayake, an outsider of the family parties that have dominated Sri Lankan politics for decades, swept to power promising ...

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

The Rajapaksa brothers — Mahinda, Gotabaya, Chamal and Basil — too are not contesting this election after decades-long ...