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The election of new Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake and the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna-led National People’s Power alliance's parliamentary supermajority signal a significant political ...
News Sri Lanka » Eastern » Politics: How a Leftist Delivered Sri Lanka’s Biggest Political Jolt in Decades
Anura Kumara Dissanayake offered his broad leftist coalition as the best hope for a different political culture, one not ruled by nepotism and corruption. By Mujib Mashal and Pamodi Waravita Reporting ...
News Sri Lanka » Eastern » Politics: Real winners of Sri Lanka’s election: A people emboldened to force change
Colombo, Sri Lanka — Transport a Sri Lankan citizen from the early 1990s to the past week of the island’s politics, and you may just break their brain. Back then, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), ...
News Sri Lanka » Eastern » Politics: Interview: ‘The Prospect for Political Change in Sri Lanka Rests on the Dynamics of the Next Few Months’
Sri Lanka elected Anura Kumara Dissanayake as its new president on September 21, marking the first time in the country’s history that a candidate outside the two major political parties has won the ...
News Sri Lanka » Eastern » Politics: A political and policy tightrope awaits Sri Lanka’s new president
Anura Kumara Dissanayake has emerged victorious in Sri Lanka’s presidential election, held on 21 September 2024. Dissanayake, who obtained 42.3 per cent of the votes, managed to secure victory over ...
News Sri Lanka » Eastern » Politics: Sri Lanka’s Political Shift: Dissanayake’s 2024 Victory Marks New Era
In a transformative moment for Sri Lankan politics, Anura Kumara Dissanayake secured victory in the 2024 presidential election, marking a critical break from the political oligarchies that have long ...
News Sri Lanka » Eastern » Politics: Sri Lanka’s Anti-drug Drive Targets Narco-politics and Organized Crime Networks
Since the end of the war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in 2009, the proliferation of narcotics has become a serious problem in Sri Lanka. During the campaign for the 2024 general ...
News Sri Lanka » Eastern » Politics: Nationalism of two kinds threatens Sri Lanka’s Christians
For decades, religious persecution in Sri Lanka was framed mainly as Sinhala-Buddhist nationalist campaigns against Christians and Muslims, but a growing body of research points to a less-examined ...
News Sri Lanka » Eastern » Politics: NPP Poised for Victory in Sri Lanka’s Parliamentary Election
Less than two months after Sri Lankans elected a new president, they are set to vote in parliamentary elections on November 14. President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s National People’s Power (NPP) seems ...
News Sri Lanka » Eastern » Politics: The controversy over grasslands in eastern Sri Lanka
This article by Ishanka Singha Arachchi originally appeared on Groundviews, an award-winning citizen journalism website in Sri Lanka. An edited version is published below as part of a content-sharing ...
News Sri Lanka » Eastern » Politics: Rajnath's visit to strengthen India-Sri Lanka defence ties: Thondaman
Ceylon Workers’ Congress leader Senthil Thondaman said Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s visit would strengthen the longstanding India-Sri Lanka defence partnership. Singh assured Colombo of India's ...