We urge workers, students, youth and rural poor to vote for the SEP in this election to express their support for our ...

Uditha Devapriya and Umesh Moramudali on Sri Lanka’s ongoing political realignment.

The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) are over. Therefore, we are the party for the voters who lost their faith in all those parties to vote. We strongly believe in ...

Sri Lanka’s economic crisis resulted largely from ... Wickremesinghe was elected by a parliamentary vote in July 2022 to cover the remainder of Rajapaksa’s five-year term.

Sri Lanka’s so-called “political earthquake” saw the election of a president from outside the traditional political elites ...

No election in Sri Lanka has ever progressed to the second ... "Opinion polls and initial campaigning suggest the vote is likely, for the first time ever, to produce a winner who fails to gain ...

Dr Bilesha Weeraratne is a Research Fellow and Head of Migration and Urbanisation Research at IPS. Prior to re-joining IPS in ...

Cash-strapped Sri Lanka's main Marxist politician took a comfortable ... Early results from Saturday's vote strongly suggested that 55-year-old Anura Kumara Dissanayaka would become the first ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Voting ended in Sri Lanka ... There were no major incidents reported during the vote but authorities declared a countrywide curfew until Sunday morning as a precaution ...