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Sri Lanka president Anura Kumara Dissanayake to visit China

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake will travel to the island's largest bilateral lender China for talks in January, he said on Saturday, days after completing a long-delayed foreign debt restructuring. China accounted for more than half of Sri Lanka's bilateral debt at the time of the 2022 economic crash, when Colombo ran out of foreign exchange to pay …

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Sri Lanka president to visit key lender China

New Indian Express

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake will travel to the island's largest bilateral lender China for talks in January, he said on Saturday, days after completing a long-delayed foreign debt restructure. China accounted for more than half of Sri Lanka's bilateral debt at the time of the 2022 economic crash, when Colombo ran out of foreign exchange to pay for …

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The Hindu profiles on Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna

The Hindu

When Anura Kumara Dissanayake was elected President of Sri Lanka in September, and his National People’s Power alliance swept the general elections on November 14, most international news headlines stamped the winners as ‘Marxist’. Wijeweera began what became the JVP in 1965, exactly three decades after Ceylon’s left movement birthed the country’s oldest party, the Lanka Sama Samaja Party, consequent …

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How Sri Lanka elects its Parliament and why Dissanayake called for snap elections

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Sri Lanka voted in a snap general election on Thursday. Dissanayake's coalition, the National People's Party had just three seats in the previous parliament but scored a landslide victory in the latest general election, winning a two-thirds majority in the 225-member house. Here are the key steps in the process in which 17.1 million Sri Lankans were eligible to elect …

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Landslide win for Sri Lanka’s leftist coalition in snap general elections

Al Jazeera

President Dissanayake now has the mandate he needs to tackle corruption and recover stolen assets after financial crash. Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s leftist coalition has achieved a landslide victory in snap parliamentary elections, delivering the self-described Marxist leader a powerful mandate to fight poverty and corruption in the crisis-stricken nation. The Election Commission of Sri Lanka said on …

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Sri Lankan Parliamentary elections begin with issues of welfare, economic reforms at stake | WATCH

India TV News

Colombo: Sri Lankans began voting on Thursday in a snap election to decide if the Indian Ocean island will give its new leftist president greater strength to help the poor as it recovers from a financial meltdown. "I think we are seeing the first signs of a positive political change in Sri Lanka after the president was elected and we …

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Sri Lanka set for parliamentary election, all arrangements in place

New Indian Express

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka is set to hold its parliamentary election on Thursday with all arrangements in place to ensure a fair and transparent process, a top election commission official has said. Director General of the Elections Commission Saman Sri Ratnayaka on Tuesday said that all ballot boxes and other equipment needed at the polling stations would be dispatched on Wednesday. …

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Wickremesinghe, Alahapperuma, and Dissanayake in race for Sri Lanka presidency

The Hindu

Sri Lanka will witness a three-cornered race for presidency on Wednesday, as the island awaits a new leader and government after an astounding people’s uprising ousted Gotabaya Rajapaksa last week. But, some of its legislators have, more recently, been sitting “independently” in the House, apparently distancing themselves from the Rajapaksa clan and their party, widely discredited during Sri Lanka’s devastating …

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Sri Lanka Crisis Latest Updates Ranil Wickremesinghe Sajith Premadasa Four leaders In Fray President Post SLPP Anura Kumara Dissanayake Dullas Alahapperuma

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New Delhi: Amid the ongoing political and economic crisis in Sri Lanka, acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Opposition leader Sajith Premadasa are among the four leaders who have joined the race to become the country's next President as the lawmakers met on Saturday to begin the process of choosing another president to succeed Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after facing unprecedented protests …

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The Hindu profiles on Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna

How Sri Lanka elects its Parliament and why Dissanayake called for snap elections

Landslide win for Sri Lanka’s leftist coalition in snap general elections

Sri Lankan Parliamentary elections begin with issues of welfare, economic reforms at stake | WATCH

Sri Lanka set for parliamentary election, all arrangements in place

Wickremesinghe, Alahapperuma, and Dissanayake in race for Sri Lanka presidency

Sri Lanka Crisis Latest Updates Ranil Wickremesinghe Sajith Premadasa Four leaders In Fray President Post SLPP Anura Kumara Dissanayake Dullas Alahapperuma