Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s leftist coalition has achieved a landslide victory in snap elections, delivering the Marxist-leaning leader a powerful mandate to ease punishing austerity measures in the crisis-stricken nation.
With most ballots counted, Dissanayake’s National People’s Power was far ahead of the opposition alliance Samagi Jana Balawegaya with sixty-two percent of the vote and a majority of seats, according to partial results from the country’s election commission.
The National People’s Power had won one hundred and forty-one seats in the two hundred- and twenty-five-member parliament and was leading in all but one of twenty-two electoral districts putting it on track to secure an overwhelming parliamentary majority.
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