COLOMBO — Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's leftist coalition won a landslide victory in snap legislative elections, results showed on Friday, as voters repudiated establishment parties blamed for triggering an economic crisis.
Dissanayake, a self-avowed Marxist, swept presidential elections in September on a promise to combat graft and recover stolen assets, two years after a slow-motion financial crash caused widespread hardship on the island nation.
