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Dissanayake Mudiyanselage Anura Kumara Dissanayake was born on 24 November 1968 in the village of Dewahuwa, Matale District, Central Province, Sri Lanka. [16] [unreliable source?] [11] His father who was an agricultural worker who later joined the surveyor's department as an office aide [17] [18] and his mother was a housewife. He has one ...
In the IHP SLOTS polling for August 2024, the net favourability rating of Sajith Premadasa improved to −32, a 10-point increase compared to July. Meanwhile, Anura Kumara Dissanayake and President Ranil Wickremesinghe saw their favourability ratings drop to −21 (a decrease of 16 points) and −33 (a decrease of 4 points), respectively.
Considered an electorally weak third-party before the 2024 presidential election, it briefly formed a minority government under president Anura Kumara Dissanayake following his election. In the subsequent parliamentary elections, the NPP became the largest party in the parliament for the first time with 159 seats, winning a supermajority.
Having realised that it was not possible to come to power through his party alone, Dissanayake formed the NPP in 2019, bringing together 21 groups including political parties, youth groups, women’s groups, trade unions and other civil society groups. Since the formation of the coalition, Dissanayake has moved away from his far leftist stance.
Party lines blur in campaign's last stretch; Harris raises $27 million in New York fundraiser, promises economic speech this week; Families from Tennessee to California seek humanitarian parole for adopted children in Haiti; Marxist Anura Kumara Dissanayake sworn in as Sri Lanka's president after election that rejected political old guard
Anura Kumara Dissanayake may lack the political lineage of some of his rivals, but his leftist policies to help the poor and stirring speeches have made him a leading candidate in Sri Lanka's ...
Anura Kumara Dissanayake, leader of National People's Power alliance and its presidential candidate, says he's serving those who were part of public protests that ousted then-President Gotabaya ...
The 2024 presidential elections were a three-way contest between Ranil Wickremesinghe, Sajith Premadasa, and Anura Kumara Dissanayake. In the first vote count, no candidate secured a majority. Dissanayake led with 42% of the vote, followed by Premadasa with 33%, while incumbent president Wickremesinghe finished third with 17%.