COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka will vote in a snap general election on Thursday, called by new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to secure a majority in parliament to back his policies in the island nation struggling to recover from a crushing financial crisis.

Sri Lanka is set to hold on Thursday its snap parliamentary election – first after the 2022 economic crisis – amid deployment of nearly 90,000 security personnel across the country

Election officials and a police officer carry a ballot box and other voting materials a day before Sri Lanka parlia

The Chairman of the Election Commission R.M.A.L. Rathnayake requests all the voters in Sri Lanka to exercise their franchise in the upcoming General Election. He stated that as voting is a right granted to people by the country’s Constitution, the public should cast their votes.

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Elections Commission is urging voters to show up and vote in the parliamentary election on November 14. “Voting is your constitutional right. So it is your duty to exercise that right,” Elections Commission Chairman R M A L Rathnayake said on Friday (8).

COLOMBO, Oct. 30 (Xinhua) -- Postal voting for Sri Lanka's upcoming parliamentary election on Nov. 14 began Wednesday across polling centers nationwide. The Election Commission announced that postal voting would be held at designated government institutions, including police stations, district secretariats and district election offices.

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka is set to hold its parliamentary election on Thursday with all arrangements in place to ensure a fair and transparent process, a top election commission official has said. Voting will take place at over 13,

The Rajapaksa family, who hail from Hambantota and whose cohort of brothers gave Sri Lanka two former presidents during a dozen years in power, saw their political fortunes wane a

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake is looking to consolidate his party’s power in Thursday’s parliamentary election to help him implement his election pledges to solve the country’s economic woes and foster good governance.