Sri Lankans are voting in a parliamentary election that's key for their new, Marxist-leaning president to consolidate his ...

A notable number of women are contesting Sri Lanka’s general elections on Thursday, signalling a potential shift in the ...

Chanu Nimesha is contesting Sri Lanka's parliamentary election on Thursday as the first openly transgender candidate, hoping ...

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

With Sri Lanka's economic recovery hanging in balance, President Dissanayake hopes voters give him a strong mandate for his ...

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

As election cycles come and go, the conversation around the low female representation in Sri Lanka’s political sphere is ...

Sri Lanka’s September 21 presidential election – the first since the protests in 2022 that ousted former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa – has been praised for the lack of election violence and ...

Chanu Nimesha, the Secretary of Women's Affairs of the Sri Lanka Socialist ... to contest the General Election and thus creating history by fielding a transgender candidate to contest an election ...

Less than two months after Sri Lankans elected a new president, they are set to vote in parliamentary elections on November ... leader of the SJB women’s wing, resigned following an argument ...

Representation of minority groups in Sri Lanka’s Parliament appears to be in danger of weakening in the upcoming elections, which could affect ... political parties are neglecting the nomination of ...

The big change in views in Sri Lanka meant that Sri Lankans went from being amongst the pessimistic nations when thinking about the direction of the country to being the amongst the most positive ...