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Sri Lanka’s People Have Kicked Out the Old Political Class
The progressive alliance that backs Sri Lanka’s new president, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, won a landslide victory in last week ...
An overturning of Sri Lanka’s old political order
The Sri Lankan parliamentary elections have, more or less, cleansed the 225-member Parliament, purging the country’s arrogant ...
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‘Need a change’: Sri Lanka’s leftist win sparks hopes, bridges old divides
President Dissanayake’s party has won a two-thirds majority in parliament, including among Tamils and Muslims.
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Sri Lanka’s National People’s Power Sweeps General Election
On October 15, data from the Election Commission of Sri Lanka showed that the National People’s Power (NPP) coalition scored ...
Sri Lanka Leftists Win Supermajority in Rebuke of Old Guard
Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s coalition took an early lead in parliamentary elections seen as a test of the ...