Who is Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Sri Lanka’s new Marxist president?
Marxist politician Anura Dissanayake won Sri Lanka’s presidential election over the weekend, dealing a blow to a political old guard that has been widely blamed for the unprecedented economic crisis that hit the South Asian island nation two years ago.
Sri Lankans elect Marxist-leaning Dissanayake as president to fix economy
Sri Lankans elected Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake as their new president on Sunday, putting faith in his pledge to fight corruption and bolster a fragile economic recovery following the South Asian nation’s worst financial crisis in decades.
Voters who earlier backed other candidates and the usual smaller number from the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) contributed ...
Sri Lanka's new president, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, named college professor and first-time lawmaker Harini Amarasuriya as ...
Sri Lanka's new president says he'll restart talks with the IMF to find a way out of economic crisis
Sri Lanka’s new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake says that he will soon resume discussions with the International Monetary Fund and foreign creditors to plot a way out of the worst economic ...
Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in as Sri Lanka’s 10th president on Monday after an election that saw voters reject an old guard accused of leading the country into economic ...
By Uditha Jayasinghe, Sudipto Ganguly and Libby George COLOMBO/LONDON (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's new president won the election ...
Following his election victory in Colombo among the new president's priorities are negotiations with the International ...
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