Sri Lanka holds a snap election on Thursday which will determine if the South Asian island nation wants to empower its new, leftist President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to push his anti-poverty policies as it recovers from a financial meltdown.

But investors worry Dissanayake's desire to revisit the terms of the IMF bailout could delay future disbursements, and make it harder for Sri Lanka to hit that primary surplus target. "In past elections, people did not have confidence in us but in ...

21 presidential election, widely seen as a stunning rebuke of Sri Lanka’s political elite, who voters blamed for leading the country into a historic debt default in 2022. A $3 billion IMF bailout that followed the next year came with tough austerity ...