Sri Lankan president seeks party win in parliamentary election to help him push his economic reforms
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake is looking to consolidate his party's power in ...
Sri Lankans to vote for change in parliamentary election
STORY: Sudath Kumara and his wife Nilmini live in a house illegally built on state-owned land in Sri Lanka.They have nowhere ...
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The Tamil Question in a Changing Sri Lanka: The Limits of Dissanayake’s Leftist Agenda
A failure to engage with Tamil demands for justice, accountability, and autonomy will ultimately prevent Dissanayake from ...
Sri Lanka Election: ‘Progress over corruption’, litmus test for Anura Dissanayake as voters head to polls on November 14
Sri Lanka’s new leftist leader, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, seeks to expand his parliamentary seats with backing from ...
Discarding decades of dynastic politics, Sri Lankans to vote for change in parliament poll
Sri Lanka votes to elect a new parliament this week in a snap general election called by its Marxist-leaning president who ...
Sri Lankans to vote for change in parliament poll, discarding decades of dynastic politics
Sri Lanka votes to elect a new parliament this week in a snap general election called by its Marxist-leaning president who ...
Sri Lanka's Leftist President Faces First Parliament Test
Sri Lanka's new leftist leader has drawn strong support from an unlikely source as he seeks to expand his three parliamentary ...
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Sri Lankan Court Dismisses Election Date Dispute
The Sri Lankan Supreme Court dismissed a petition challenging the constitutionality of holding the parliamentary election on ...
Sri Lanka’s JVP government drops election promise to abolish terrorism law
This week’s announcement makes clear that the JVP/NPP administration will not hesitate to use the PTA and other repressive ...
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Sri Lankan SEP demands an end to the illegal state harassment of its election candidates in the North
Over the past two weeks, Sri Lankan police officers have illegally visited and questioned one of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) candidates running for northern Jaffna district in the November ...
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NPP Poised for Victory in Sri Lanka’s Parliamentary Election
“Many Sri Lankan politicians mistakenly believe that public sentiment can be reduced to simple arithmetic. During the run-up to the presidential election, many SJB members insisted that it would ...
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Sri Lankan lessons for the Indian Left
In the 2004 general election ... gold in the presidential race this September has been a logical conclusion of the persistent politicking of the JVP. The moral of the Sri Lankan Left story ...