Sri Lanka's political campaigning drew to a close Monday ahead of parliamentary polls that have turned into a referendum on ambitious plans to tackle corruption in the bankrupt nation.

We urge workers, students, youth and rural poor to vote for the SEP in this election to express their support for our ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake pledges to return Tamil lands, hold elections, and address key concerns in Sri Lanka.

Uditha Devapriya and Umesh Moramudali on Sri Lanka’s ongoing political realignment.

Sri Lanka’s so-called “political earthquake” saw the election of a president from outside the traditional political elites ...

Tomorrow, we move into November – a crucial month owing to Sri Lanka’s General Elections scheduled for the 14th. ..

Sri Lanka concluded its Presidential election on 21 September ... After the announcement of the election, and with the success of the NPP in the Presidential elections, other political parties have ...

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka has generally seen anti-Indian sentiment rise close to its elections, but this has been notably ...

Dr Bilesha Weeraratne is a Research Fellow and Head of Migration and Urbanisation Research at IPS. Prior to re-joining IPS in ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake thunders from the political platform on the cusp of an uninspiring general election that hence-forth, ex-Sri Lankan Presidents must ‘make an application’ to be ...

My adopted country of Sri Lanka recently held presidential elections. While I lived there, from 2002 to 2016, Chandrika Kumaratunga was president (1994-2005). At first, I was mostly sightseeing, ...

Leading political parties, mostly in the Sinhala speaking south, are known to loudly proclaim the need to elect more women to ...