Opinion
Sri Lanka Presidential Election 2024: A turning point or a false dawn?
A roadside shoemaker works at his usual spot on Yatinuwara Street, Kandy, Sri Lanka, with pasted presidential election posters of AKD above his head on September 14, 2024, before the elections. COURTESY: SAKUNA M GAMAGE
JVP/NPP leader elected as new president of Sri Lanka
The dramatic increase in the vote for the JVP/NPP is a product of two inter-related processes—the seething hostility and anger of broad layers of the population over the social crisis; and support for the JVP/NPP in sections of the ruling class as the means for suppressing that opposition.
Anura Kumara Dissanayake offered his broad leftist coalition as the best hope for a different political culture, one not ...
The election of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake as Sri Lanka’s executive president is a major ...
Anura Kumara Dissanayake won Sri Lanka’s presidential election after knocking out the incumbent liberal President Ranil ...
Yet many Sri Lankans continue to demand fundamental change. It is not only swingeing austerity that angers them: they are ...
His victory follows a period of both political and fiscal turmoil that led to former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s ...
The JVP’s roots are steeped in violent history, particularly its links to Sinhala nationalism and ethnic chauvinism. Under the leadership of its founder, Rohana Wijeweera, the JVP led uprisings that ...
T he victory of Anura Kumara Dissanayake, leader of the Marxist-Leninist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP, People’s Liberation ...
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