Sri Lankan president’s coalition heads for landslide: early results

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Election officials and security personnel transport sealed ballot boxes to a counting center at the end of voting in Sri Lanka's legislative elections in Colombo on Nov. 14, 2024.(AFP)
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COLOMBO: New Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s party was headed for a landslide win at snap legislative elections, initial results showed Friday.
With over half of the ballots in Thursday’s parliamentary elections counted, Dissanayake’s National People’s Power (NPP) coalition party had taken an unassailable lead with 63 percent of the vote, Election Commission results showed.

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