Sri Lanka votes in first election since protests ousted leader - BBC News
WEB1 day ago · Updated 12:54 BST. Polls have closed in Sri Lanka's election, where voters are choosing a new president for the first time since mass protests unseated the country's leader in 2022. Saturday's ...
Officials begin counting votes after polls close in Sri Lanka’s ... - PBS
WEB1 day ago · Related. Ahead of new election, many are still waiting for change after protests ousted Sri Lanka’s last president. By Sheikh Saaliq, Associated Press. How upcoming elections in South Asia will ...
Vote count underway in Sri Lanka's presidential election after …
WEB1 day ago · COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Voting ended in Sri Lanka's presidential election Saturday as the country seeks to recover from the worst economic crisis in its history and the resulting political upheaval. The election, contested by 38 candidates, was largely a three-way race among incumbent liberal …
Sri Lanka votes in first election since financial meltdown
WEB1 day ago · September 21, 2024 at 5:13 a.m. EDT. NEW DELHI — Roughly 17 million Sri Lankans are heading to the polls in the first election since one of the country’s worst financial meltdowns, with ...
Sri Lankans vote in a presidential election that will decide how it ...
WEB1 day ago · COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankans began voting Saturday in a presidential election that will determine the course of the country’s recovery from its worst economic crisis and resulting political upheaval.. The election, contested by 38 candidates, is largely a three-way race among incumbent liberal President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Marxist-leaning lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake, and ...
Voting ends in Sri Lanka’s first presidential election since …
WEB1 day ago · The party led two failed uprisings in the 1970s and 1980s that left more than 80,000 people dead, and it won less than 4 percent of the vote in the last parliamentary elections. But Sri Lanka’s ...
The Incumbent, the Marxist and the Heir: Sri Lanka’s Tight Race …
WEB1 day ago · Sept. 21, 2024, 12:01 a.m. ET. Sri Lanka will hold a presidential election on Saturday for the first time since its strongman president fled the country two years ago in the face of protests over ...
Voting ends in Sri Lanka to choose a president and a way out of …
WEB1 day ago · COLOMBO (AP) -- Voting has ended Saturday in Sri Lanka's presidential election as the country seeks to recover from the worst economic crisis in its history and the resulting political upheaval ...
Sri Lanka votes in first election since protests ousted leader - BBC
WEB1 day ago · BBC News. Reporting fromColombo. Sri Lankans will elect a new president in the first election since mass protests sparked by the country's worst-ever economic crisis unseated the leader in 2022 ...
Crisis-hit Sri Lanka votes in crucial election to decide economic ...
WEB1 day ago · Over 13,000 polling stations were set up across the country and 250,000 public officials deployed to manage the election, R.M.L. Rathnayake, the head of Sri Lanka's election commission, told Reuters.