The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), a formerly marginal communist party, has secured a stunning two-thirds majority in Sri ...

Dissanayake is popularly known] wave and Sri Lanka’s electoral history ... Read this analysis by Meera Srinivasan. The JVP took the back-to-back victories as an opportunity.

In the 2019 presidential election, Dissanayake won just 3.1 percent of the vote, and in the last parliamentary election, held in August 2020 amid the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the JVP ...