Sajith or Anura? Why second preference votes being counted in Sri Lanka?
The election commission of Sri Lanka on Sunday ordered the counting of the second preference vote after no candidate secured over 50 per cent votes in the recently concluded Presidential election. This is the first time in the history of Sri Lanka the second preference vote is being counted as per the Presidential Elections Act of 1981,
The Incumbent, the Marxist and the Heir: Sri Lanka’s Tight Race for President
Mr. Wickremesinghe, 75, a six-time former prime minister, is a political survivor. His elevation to the presidency in 2022, after the overthrow of Gotabaya Rajapaksa, plucked him out of irrelevance and demonstrated his formidable bargaining powers.
Tamils form 12% of the country's 22 million population, but have long been electorally sidelined, as most candidates belong ...
STORY: Tamils in Sri Lanka have little hope that Saturday's (September 21) presidential election will improve their lot. This ...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who rose to the helm through a parliament vote two years back, has ...
Sri Lanka is set to get its new president after a historic turn ... This election cycle has shifted focus away from the minority Tamil issue, with the nation's battered economy and recovery ...
Sri Lanka's main newspaper in the northern port of Jaffna endured bullets and bombings during a decades-long Tamil separatist ...
Both leading candidates in Sri Lanka's presidential election are promising to give land to the country’s hundreds of ...
I came in to stabilize the economy and ensure that the bankruptcy declaration of Sri Lanka is removed,” he stated, ...
"For Sri Lankans, this election is a way of overcoming the trauma of the economic hardship they have just been through, a way ...
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