The incumbent president has governed with the backing of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) party of the Rajapaksa family. Critics also accuse Wickremasinghe — whose policies have included ...

In the summer of 2022, Pali Abeywickrama and his friends marched to the presidential palace during Sri Lanka’s popular anti-government uprising. They and thousands of others stormed Gotabaya ...

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Two of the leading presidential contenders ... Graphic: The graphic is a column chart showing Sri Lanka’s real GDP growth from 2011 to 2029. The projections, from 2024, have been highlighted ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka will hold its presidential election on Sept. 21 in a crucial vote that will decide the future of the South Asian nation still struggling to recover from its ...

When an uprising ousted Sri Lanka's president, many saw it as the end of his powerful family's hold on the island nation after more than 12 years of rule. Now, as Sri Lanka prepares to elect a new ...

President Ranil Wickremesinghe's rally on ... the candidates are expected to publish their positions on efforts to chart Sri Lanka's way out of its financial crisis since running out of foreign ...

Sri Lanka's President-Elect Breaks a Tradition of Political Lineage By Sudipto Ganguly, Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) -Anura Kumara Dissanayake may lack the political lineage of some of his ...