A little over 17 million Sri Lankans are eligible to elect lawmakers to the 225-member parliament for a five-year term

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Sri Lanka votes for new parliament as economic recovery hangs in balance

President Dissanayake is seeking a majority to push through reforms to help the debt-ridden nation.

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Snap Sri Lankan election poses test for new leader

COLOMBO (Reuters) -     Sri Lanka holds a snap election on Thursday which will determine if the South Asian island nation wants to empower its new, leftist President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to push his anti-poverty policies as it recovers from a financial meltdown.   Read full story

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A little over 17 million Sri Lankans are eligible to elect lawmakers to the 225-member parliament.

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(Bloomberg) — Sri Lanka holds its first parliamentary elections since the victory of its outsider leftist president, in a test of his ambitious pledges to combat corruption and rewrite an unpopular International Monetary Fund loan program.

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Sri Lanka Leader Seeks to Bolster Power With Parliamentary Vote

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Here is why the upcoming parliamentary election is so significant for newly-elected President Anura Kumara Dissanayake.

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Sri Lanka parliamentary elections 2024: What’s at stake?

With Sri Lanka's economic recovery hanging in balance, President Dissanayake hopes voters give him a strong mandate for his policies to reduce taxes and boost welfare.

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Sri Lanka: Voting begins in snap parliamentary election

Crucial Election for Sri Lanka's New Leadership  Sri Lanka is set to vote in a pivotal parliamentary election, a crucial juncture for the Marxist-leaning President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to solidify his party's influence and pursue economic recovery. The president's win on September 21 broke the long-standing grip of traditional parties since the country's independence in 1948.With Dissanayake's presidential triumph securing just 42% of the vo…

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Crucial Election for Sri Lanka's New Leadership

By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) –     Sri Lanka holds a snap election on Thursday which will determine if the South Asian island nation wants to empower its new, leftist President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to push his anti-poverty policies as it recovers from a financial meltdown. A little over 17 million Sri Lankans are eligible to elect lawmakers to the 225-member parliament for a five-year term. A record 690 political parties and indepe…

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The 2024 general election polling to elect members for the 10th Parliament of Sri Lanka is scheduled to begin at 7 this morning. 8361 candidates are contesting for 196 parliamentary posts in this year's general election. The remaining 29 seats are elected by national lists. Nearly 9 lakh new voters for the 2024 general election […] The post 2024 general election polling starts at 7 am today appeared first on ITN News.

ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ දස වැනි පාර්ලිමේන්තුව සඳහා මන්ත්‍රීවරුන් තෝරා පත් කර ගැනීමේ, 2024 මහ මැතිවරණ ඡන්ද විමසීම අද උදෑසන 7ට ආරම්භ  වීමට නියමිතයි. පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී ධූර196 ක් සඳහා අපේක්ෂකයින් 8361 දෙනෙකු මෙවර මහා මැතිවරණයට තරග කරනු ලබයි. ඉතිරි ආසන 29 තෝරා පත් කර ගැනෙන්නේ ජාතික ලැයිස්තුව මගින්. 2024 මහ මැතිවරණය සඳහා නව ඡන්දදායකයන් ලක්ෂ 9කට ආසන්න […] The post 2024  මහ මැතිවරණයේ ඡන්ද විමසීම අද උදෑසන 7ට ඇරඹෙයි appeared first on ITN News.

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