Anura Kumara Dissanayake has emerged as Sri ... The 55-year-old leader of the National People’s Power (NPP) coalition defeated his main rival, opposition leader Sajith Premadasa, who garnered ...

JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake waves outside election commission ... the National People’s Power (NPP), has never before held the presidency and has only ever been a junior partner in ...

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's ... The main constituent of the NPP is the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), with Dissanayake as its leader. Voters directly elect 196 members ...

NPP said Dissanayake will take oath on Monday. Anura Kumara Dissanayake, 56, the leader of the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna party's broader front National People’s Power (NPP), defeated his ...

Leftist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake has been sworn in as Sri ... ran as head of the Marxist-leaning National People's Power (NPP) coalition and defeated opposition leader Sajith Premadasa ...

At a meeting of the Business Forum on September 4, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Sri Lankan presidential candidate of the National People’s Power (NPP) led by Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), warned ...

The NPP, led by Sri Lanka's President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, has secured a groundbreaking 2/3 majority in Parliament, the first instance of a single party accomplishing this under the ...

Colombo: Sri Lanka's National People's Power of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake ... has ended as people are embracing the NPP," Dissanayake, the NPP leader, said. The NPP under its original ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Marxist politician Anura ... years ago. Dissanayake, whose pro-working class populist campaign won him youth support, secured victory over opposition leader Sajith ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake ... Dissanayake is the leader of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)'s broader coalition National People's Power (NPP).Dissanayake secured almost 42% of the popular vote ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in as Sri ... and been part of governments briefly. The NPP grouping also includes academics, civil society movements ...