Sri Lanka's Marxist president-elect Anura Kumara Dissanayaka hails from a party behind two deadly insurrections, counts Che ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayaka advocates for an increased presence of professionals in the IT sector. To support this argument, he claims that Sri Lanka has a lower proportion of “software ...

Self-avowed Marxist Anura Kumara Dissanayaka of the People's Liberation Front (JVP) took his oath at the colonial-era Presidential Secretariat in Colombo after trouncing his nearest rivals in ...

Sri Lanka elects new president amid economic crisis Election outcome: Anura Kumara Dissanayaka, leader of the People's Liberation Front, declared president-elect with 42.31% of the vote in ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayaka, the 55-year-old leader of the People's Liberation Front, was declared the winner of the weekend's poll with nearly 1.3 million more votes than his nearest rival.

Anura Kumara Dissanayaka, the 55-year-old leader of the People's Liberation Front, won the presidency with 42.31 percent of the vote in Saturday's election, the commission said. Opposition leader ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayaka, the leader of the People's Liberation Front (JVP), was sworn in as Sri Lanka's first leftist president on Monday. Dissanayaka, who won 42.31% of the vote in the recent ...

Early results from Saturday's vote strongly suggested that 55-year-old Anura Kumara Dissanayaka would become the first leftist commander-in-chief and head of state of the small but strategically ...

President-elect Anura Kumara Dissanayaka took 42.31 percent of the ballots in Saturday's election - Copyright AFP Ishara S. Kodikara President-elect Anura Kumara ...