Sajith or Anura? Why second preference votes being counted in Sri Lanka?
The election commission of Sri Lanka on Sunday ordered the counting of the second preference vote after no candidate secured over 50 per cent votes in the recently concluded Presidential election. This is the first time in the history of Sri Lanka the second preference vote is being counted as per the Presidential Elections Act of 1981,
Tamils form 12% of the country's 22 million population, but have long been electorally sidelined, as most candidates belong ...
STORY: Tamils in Sri Lanka have little hope that Saturday's (September 21) presidential election will improve their lot. This ...
Sri Lanka's main newspaper in the northern port of Jaffna endured bullets and bombings during a decades-long Tamil separatist ...
Sajith Premadasa, the leader of Sri Lanka's main opposition party, is a frontrunner in Saturday's presidential election and a ...
Both leading candidates in Sri Lanka's presidential election are promising to give land to the country’s hundreds of ...
I came in to stabilize the economy and ensure that the bankruptcy declaration of Sri Lanka is removed,” he stated, ...
This tiny 11-kilometre-long, six-kilometre-wide strip, 30 kilometres off the coast of northern Sri Lanka, is the country's ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results
Feedback