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.
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.
He stormed to the presidency after successfully distancing himself from establishment politicians blamed for steering the country to its 2022 economic crisis.The financial crash was the worst in Buddhist-majority Sri Lanka's history as an independent nation, sparking monthslong shortages of food, fuel and essential medicines.The resulting public anger culminated in the storming of then-president Gotabaya Rajapaksa's compound, prompting his resignation and temporary exile.
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