In Sri Lanka’s recent quick parliamentary elections, the new leader’s left-leaning alliance won by a landslide.
According to official results, the National People’s Power (NPP) alliance led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake won 159 seats and a two-thirds majority in parliament.
President Dissanayake’s alliance received nearly 62% of the vote, winning even in the Tamil-dominated Jaffna Peninsula for the first time since independence from Britain in 1948.
In a succinct statement posted on social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, Dissanayake expressed gratitude to everyone who cast a ballot for a renaissance.
