How worried should Sri Lanka be about its ex-Marxist president?
The main reason for worrying about Mr Dissanayake is not that he is a zealot. It is that he has little experience in government, barring a brief stint as agriculture minister two decades ago. Somehow, he must continue with painful reforms to keep the economy stable without alienating the people who elected him. It is an almost impossible task.
Sri Lanka’s new president says he’ll restart talks with the IMF to find a way out of economic crisis
Sri Lanka’s new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake says that he will soon resume discussions with the International Monetary Fund and foreign creditors to plot a way out of the worst economic crisis in the country’s history.
Hundreds of pricey government vehicles have been abandoned around Sri Lanka's capital after the country's new Marxist-leaning ...
The Marxist lawmaker who won Sri Lanka’s presidency faces a key challenge in how to balance ties with his country’s two most ...
COLOMBO, (REUTERS) – Sri Lanka’s leftist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake took office as president on September 23, promising ...
Sri Lanka's new leftist leader has little room to renegotiate an IMF bailout that threw a lifeline to his bankrupt country ...
Anura Kumara Dissanayake offered his broad leftist coalition as the best hope for a different political culture, one not ...
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