Anura Kumara Dissanayake wins Sri Lankan presidential election after an unprecedented second round of vote counting. Defeats ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake has been elected president. His anti-corruption stance and promise of political change resonated ...

Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Sunday was declared winner of the Sri Lankan presidential election by the ...

Following the first elections since the country's economic crisis, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, the leader of the Janatha ...

Sri Lanka's Marxist-leaning leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) party will be sworn in as the country's ninth - also, the first Leftist - President on Monday, following ...

Sri Lanka’s leftist candidate won a tightly contested presidential election, with voters sweeping out the incumbent for the ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, widely known as AKD, emerged as a transformative leader in Sri Lanka. He was elected as president, ...

Dissanayake, a firebrand Marxist with humble beginnings, emerged as a frontrunner for the Sri Lankan President’s post, ...

Dissanayake’s victory, rooted in his image as an agent of change, now faces the reality of governing a nation facing ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, representing the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna Party's broader coalition, National People’s ...

Dissanayake, 56, the leader of the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna partys broader front National Peoples Power, defeats his ...

The NPP’s platform focused on breaking the cycle of corruption and mismanagement that many believe has plagued Sri Lankan ...