Sri Lanka’s newly elected Marxist-leaning President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has secured a parliamentary majority, official election outcomes confirmed on Friday, reported AP. The victory grants Dissanayake’s get together a robust mandate to push ahead his financial revival agenda.
Based on the Election Fee’s partial outcomes, Dissanayake’s Nationwide Folks’s Energy Occasion secured at the least 123 seats out of the 225 seats in parliament. Whereas the opposition get together Samagi Jana Balawegaya, also called the United Folks’s Energy Occasion, led by Sajith Premedasa, managed simply 31 seats.
Elected on September 21, Sri Lanka’s President Anura Kumara Dissanayake gained amid widespread dissatisfaction with conventional political events which have led the nation since independence in 1948.
Whereas he obtained solely 42% of the vote, elevating doubts about his get together’s efficiency within the upcoming parliamentary elections, his get together’s assist surged quickly after he took workplace. In a stunning shift in Sri Lanka’s political panorama, Dissanayake’s get together not solely gained within the Jaffna district—an ethnic Tamil stronghold within the north—but additionally gained important assist in different minority-dominated areas.
The victory in Jaffna offers a major blow to conventional Tamil events which have held sway within the area since Sri Lanka’s independence.
In Sri Lanka’s 225-member parliament, 196 seats are contested beneath a proportional illustration system, the place districts allocate seats to events based mostly on their share of the votes. The remaining 29 seats, often called nationwide checklist seats, are distributed to events and unbiased teams based mostly on their total vote proportion throughout the nation.
(With AP inputs)
