The Marxist has campaigned on a pro-working class and anti-elite platform, which has proven popular with young people.

Results will reflect whether the people of Sri Lanka approve of Wickremesinghe's leadership over the country's fragile ...

Colombo: In a historic first, Sri Lanka's presidential election on Sunday went into a second round of counting after no ...

By Uditha Jayasinghe and Sudipto Ganguly COLOMBO (Reuters) -Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake and opposition leader ...

The election, contested by 38 candidates, was largely a three-way race between Dissanayake, Wickremesinghe and opposition ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake from the National People's Power leads Sri Lanka's presidential election with a significant margin, ...

Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake is leading Sri Lanka’s presidential election after knocking out the incumbent ...

For the first time in Sri Lanka's history, the vote counting has gone into the second round after no single candidate managed ...

By Uditha Jayasinghe and Sudipto Ganguly COLOMBO (Reuters) -Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake was leading Sri Lanka's ...

Polls closed in Sri Lanka's first election since the economic collapse, and the counting of votes is underway. Millions of voters cast their votes to select a leader who will face the task of bolsteri ...

COLOMBO: The party of a Marxist leader on track to win Sri Lanka's presidential vote vowed Sunday not to scrap the country's ...

Dissanayake, 55, and his People's Liberation Front (JVP) will "not tear up" the IMF deal, party politburo member Bimal Ratnayake told the news agency AFP.