A lawmaker said all opposition parties combined could easily muster the 113 members needed to show a majority in Parliament, at which point they will request a new government.

Sri Lanka elected Anura Kumara Dissanayake as its new president on September 21, marking the first time in the country’s history that a candidate outside the two major political parties has won ...

Sri Lankan president Anura Kumara Dissanayake holds a rally in Dehiowita, Sri Lanka, on September 17, 2024. (Photo by Ishara S. Kodikara / AFP via Getty Images) 2024 general election in comparison ...

Sri Lankan president, prime minister agree to step down after massive protests 00:25. Colombo, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka's opposition political parties were meeting Sunday to agree on a new ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A weekend of political chaos in Sri Lanka stretched into Monday, with opposition leaders yet to agree on replacements for embattled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his ...

Political vacuum besets Sri Lanka after toppling of president and prime minister. ... What we need today is an all-party government, and we will take steps to establish that,” Wickremesinghe said.

Sri Lanka’s discredited bourgeois political parties are acutely nervous about the outcome of this year’s presidential election due to be held between September 18 and October 18.

Sri Lanka, an island of 22 million people, continues to be in the grip of its worst economic and political crisis since independence on 10 February 1948.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The party of Sri Lanka’s new Marxist-leaning President Anura Kumara Dissanayake won a two-thirds majority in Parliament, according to official election results Friday, ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka's opposition political parties were meeting Sunday to agree on a new government a day after the country's president and prime minister offered to resign in the ...