"Anura Dissanayake, leader of the JVP and the National Peoples' Power (NPP), was elected as the ninth executive president of ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake won the Sri Lankan presidential election on Sunday, defeating current President Ranil Wickremesinghe and opposition leader Sajith Premadasa. The Election Commission announced ...

Colombo: Sri Lanka's new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Monday said that he shares Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ...

Dissanayake’s anti-corruption stance and call for a change in the political system resonated particularly with young voters ...

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Presidential Candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake has reportedly cast his vote at the polling station at the Saykoji Montessori ...

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Anura Dissanayake, leader of the Marxist-leaning Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) party, was sworn in on Monday as the ninth ...

Observers noted Dissanayake's election victory came as no surprise, as voters punished the previous government over years of corruption and economic mismanagement.

Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake has been sworn in as Sri Lanka's tenth president by Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya on Monday. With this, Dissanayake has officially become the first Marxist ...

Leftist alliance leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake will be Sri Lanka's new president, after he won an historic election that came two years after the peak of the country's unprecedented economic crisis.