Sri Lanka's leftist National People's Party coaltion sweeps to power in parliamentary election

Nov. 15 (UPI) -- The National People's Power coalition of Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake swept to power after a snap parliamentary election in which voters handed the left-leaning alliance a greater than two-thirds majority.

Final results announced Friday showed Dissanayake's NPP won 159 of 225 seats in parliament in the first election since his predecessor, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, was ousted in summer 2022 after months of street demonstrations by Sri Lankans angered by an economic crisis that saw the country default on its debt and a currency slump that left people unable to afford food or fuel.

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