Dissanayake is the leader of the leftist JVP party, meaning People's Liberation Front. In the 1970s and 1980s, the party spearheaded armed uprisings. But it has since become more moderate.

Senior members of the former government had dumped the state-owned cars and SUVs without a proper handover, according to Wasantha Samarasinghe, a member of Anura Kumara Dissanayake's JVP party.

Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake has been named president-elect by Sri Lanka's electoral commission. This follows an unprecedented count of people's second-preference votes. Sri Lanka's ...