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Sri Lanka election goes to historic second count
For the first time in the country's history, Sri Lanka's presidential election has gone into a second round of counting after ...
Sri Lanka presidential election goes to historic second count as no candidates secure 50 per cent votes
The latest results showed Anura Kumara Dissanayake of the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna party's broader front National ...
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Marxist-leaning Dissanayake leads early official vote count in Sri Lanka's presidential election
Marxist-leaning lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake leads early official results in Sri Lanka’s presidential election, ...
Marxist leader set to become Sri Lanka's next president
Anura Kumara Dissanayaka, leader of the People's Liberation Front, is poised to become Sri Lanka's next president after a ...
Back to the Future
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER SUMMIT: As if the world wasn’t already drowning in high-level summitry, there’s another one to add to the mix. The two-day “Summit of the Future,” the latest attempt to try to ...
The Week30m
Sajith or Anura? Why second preference votes being counted in Sri Lanka?
The election commission of Sri Lanka on Sunday ordered the counting of the second preference vote after no candidate secured ...
Why has Sri Lanka’s vote gone to an unprecedented second count?
Sri Lanka has gone to a second round of vote counting after none of the candidates met the 50 per cent plus one vote threshold required to win the presidency. President Ranil Wickremesinghe in a shock ...
Anura Dissanayake set to be new Sri Lankan president after historic recount
Sri Lanka is set to get its new president after a historic turn of events which led to a second round of counting of votes as ...