Sri Lankan leader's coalition wins big in polls

By Agence France-Presse

Nov 16, 2024 12:13 am

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.

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