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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The northern vote should be examined against the backdrop of expulsion of the entire Muslim population from that province in ...

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 ...

and it won less than four percent of the vote in the most recent parliamentary elections, held in August 2020. But Sri Lanka's crisis has proven an opportunity for Dissanayaka, who has seen a ...