Sri Lanka's election commission declared a previously fringe Marxist politician the country's president-elect on Sunday after a vote coloured by discontent over the island nation's response to an ...

Sri Lanka's first leftist president was ... Self-avowed Marxist Anura Kumara Dissanayaka of the People's Liberation Front (JVP) took his oath at the colonial-era Presidential Secretariat in ...

Sri Lanka's Marxist president-elect Anura Kumara Dissanayaka hails from a party behind two deadly insurrections, counts Che Guevara among his heroes and will now helm a country limping back from ...

Sri Lanka elects new president amid economic crisis Election outcome: Anura Kumara Dissanayaka, leader of the People's Liberation Front, declared president-elect with 42.31% of the vote in ...

Sri Lanka's election commission declared ... the island nation's response to an unprecedented financial crisis. Anura Kumara Dissanayaka, the 55-year-old leader of the People's Liberation Front ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayaka, the leader of the People's Liberation Front (JVP), was sworn in as Sri Lanka's first leftist president on Monday. Dissanayaka, who won 42.31% of the vote in the recent ...

Show more After two years of economic turmoil, Sri Lanka has elected a left-wing anti corruption candidate as president. Anura Kumara Dissanayaka has promised a fresh start for the country.

PM Modi further stated that, he looks forward to work closely with newly elect Prez of Sri Lanka to strengthen multifaceted cooperation. Anura Kumara Dissanayaka, the 55-year-old leader of the ...

"Though I heavily campaigned for President Ranil Wickremasinghe, the people of Sri Lanka have made their decision, and I fully respect their mandate for Anura Kumara Dissanayaka." There was no ...

President-elect Anura Kumara Dissanayaka took 42.31 percent of the ballots in Saturday's election - Copyright AFP Ishara S. Kodikara President-elect Anura Kumara ...