Sept. 22 (UPI) --Anura Kumara Dissanayake, a Marxist, has won Sri Lanka's presidential election following a historic second ballot count. "This victory belongs to us all," Dissanayake, 55 ...

Dissanayake was supported by 5,740,179 voters after second ballot count NEW DELHI, September 22. /TASS/. The leader of the opposition alliance National People’s Power, Anura Kumara Dissanayake ...

In the late 1980s, Anura Kumara Dissanayake joined a Marxist ... On Sunday, he won the presidency peacefully at the ballot box. Dissanayake, 55, has disowned the violent past of his Janatha ...

Sri Lanka’s National People’s Power of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Thursday secured ... according to the results from Friday's ballot counting. Local media forecasts suggest that ...

Parliamentarian Anura Kumara Dissanayake won Sri Lanka’s presidential election after a historic second round of ranked ballot counting. The 55-year-old Marxist-leaning candidate, who heads the ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s strong showing reveals voter ... Image Election officials carrying ballot boxes to a counting center on Saturday in Jaffna, Sri Lanka.Credit...Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake known popularly as Anura and ... of 1971 and 1988-90.It had abandoned the bullet for the ballot. What the JVP wanted was to acquire political power through legitimate ...

As the second round of counting progress, Anura Kumara Dissanayake is leading with more ... new political culture," he said after casting his ballot on Saturday. This election cycle has shifted ...

Having voted at Abeysinharamaya, Panchikawatte, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake declared that the NPP would ... Former President and UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe casting his ballot at the ...

Counting of the paper ballots started shortly after ... The president, Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake, 55, was elected in September but his National People's Power (NPP) coalition ...