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Where do Tamils stand with AKD's win in Sri Lanka polls?

September 23, 2024, 04:36 PM - 3 min read

Sri Lanka’s Leader of Opposition Sajith Premadasa, who lost to Anura Kumara Dissanayake in Saturday’s presidential election, garnered the highest share of the Tamil minority’s vote.

Voting concludes in crucial Sri Lankan presidential polls

September 21, 2024, 05:57 PM - 3 min read

Polling for Sri Lanka's presidential elections concluded peacefully on Saturday, with over 60% voter turnout reported by 2 PM, marking the first elections since the country's severe economic crisis in 2022, while incumbent President Ranil Wickremesinghe faces strong competition from Anura Kumara Dissanayake and Sajith Premadasa.

EU observer teams to oversee Sri Lanka presidential polls

August 30, 2024, 04:35 PM - 2 min read

A total of 17.1 million registered voters, out of a total population of 21 million, are eligible to cast their ballots on the island for the September 21 presidential polls.

Besides incumbent President Wickremesinghe, the other prominent candidates are Namal Rajapaksa, the 38-year-old heir to the Rajapaksa dynasty, the main opposition leader Sajith Premadasa and the Marxist JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake.

Record number of candidates in Sri Lankan presidential race

August 15, 2024, 05:02 PM - 2 min read

This will be the first election since Sri Lanka plunged into an economic crisis when the island nation declared sovereign default in mid-April of 2022, its first since gaining independence from Britain in 1948.