As many as 196 members are to be elected from the 22 districts based on the proportional representation system while 29 would ...

Sri Lankans vote today in a key parliamentary election, crucial for President Dissanayake and his NPP party to consolidate ...

With Sri Lanka's economic recovery hanging in balance, President Dissanayake hopes voters give him a strong mandate for his ...

Sri Lanka is set to hold on Thursday its snap parliamentary election - first after the 2022 economic crisis - amid deployment ...

Sri Lankans on Thursday began voting in the snap parliamentary election, the first major test of the ruling National People’s Power party led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake. The voting is ...

Chanu Nimesha is Sri Lanka’s first openly transgender candidate who is vying for a seat in the 225-seat parliament. The ...

Sri Lankans are voting in snap parliamentary elections. President Dissanayake's National People's Power (NPP) party seeks a ...

A country of 22 million people just across the southern tip of India, Sri Lanka was crushed by a 2022 economic crisis ...

The biggest challenge for the NPP — which was founded in 2019 and is a relative newcomer on Sri Lanka’s political scene — is ...

Sri Lanka holds a snap election on Thursday which will determine if the South Asian island nation wants to empower its new, ...

21 presidential election, widely seen as a stunning rebuke of Sri Lanka’s political elite, who voters blamed for leading the ...

The country's main private sector lobby ... The outgoing parliament was dominated by the party of former president Mahinda ...