The National People’s Power (NPP) coalition of the country’s new left-wing president Anura Kumara Dishanayake has won the early parliamentary elections in Sri Lanka with a huge majority.
Voting for this election was held on Thursday. The election commission of the island nation started publishing the results from Friday morning.
According to the data provided by the Election Commission of Sri Lanka – Dishanayak’s left-wing coalition won 137 seats out of 196 seats in the Lankan Parliament. Sri Lanka needs 113 seats to get a single majority. That is, they got two-thirds majority.
NPP won only 3 seats in the last parliamentary elections. The result is clear, blaming and rejecting the ruling parties of the past for causing the economic crisis.
According to the Election Commission, NPP got 62 percent of the votes received. Opposition leader Sajith Premadasa’s party got only 18 percent of the votes. The rest of the teams
Incidentally, in 2022, the then president Gotabaya Rajapaksa was ousted in a mass coup due to an unprecedented economic recession in the island nation. President Dissanayake came to power in September this year’s presidential election promising to fight corruption and return the country’s stolen wealth. He claims to be a Marxist. He called for immediate parliamentary elections sitting in the chair of the president.
Source: Reuters
(Dhaka Times/15 November/MR)
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