Sri Lanka’s Parliament voted Wednesday to elect six ... instructing lawmakers not to publicize or take photos of their ballots. Front-runners of the presidential race included Wickremesinghe ...

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka will vote in a snap general election on Thursday, called by new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to secure a majority in parliament to back his policies in the ...

Under Sri Lanka's proportional representation system, 196 out of 225 parliamentary seats are elected ... More Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo The NPP, founded in 2019, faces the challenge of fielding ...

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake leaves after casting his vote during the parliamentary election in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024.(AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) COLOMBO, Sri ...

FILE - Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe speaks at the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. Wickremesinghe suspended Parliament until Feb. 8 ...

He also has plans to abolish Sri Lanka's contentious executive presidency but requires a two-third majority in parliament to implement it. "This election is critical as it is a test for the NPP to ...

COLOMBO: The new parliament of Sri Lanka was convened on Thursday for the first session after the ruling NPP's historic electoral landslide victory a week ago. At the start of the new session of ...

Sri Lanka’s new president Anura Kumara Dissanayake dissolved the nation’s parliament with effect midnight Tuesday and called for early elections, framing his decision as steps toward combating ...

Sri Lanka's new president has dissolved parliament to make way for a snap general election. Anura Kumara Dissanayake dissolved the 225-member parliament in which his left-leaning National People's ...

Sri Lanka Counts Votes for New Parliament With Economic Reforms at Stake By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lanka began counting votes cast on Thursday in a snap general election that ...