Wickremensignhe’s main challengers — opposition leader Sajith Premadasa and parliamentarian Anura Dissanayake, a surprise top contender who heads a new leftist coalition — have promised major political changes, including renegotiating a deal with the International Monetary Fund to win more favorable terms.

Namal Rajapaksa, son of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, cast his vote in the 2024 Sri Lankan presidential election and urged citizens to do the same. Amid a fierce contest with Ranil Wickremesinghe and Sajith Premadasa,

Sri Lankans will vote on Saturday (today) to elect the South Asian nation's 10th president in the first election since

Women make up more than half of the voters in Sri Lanka, but in Saturday’s presidential election, not even one will be on the ballot

Sri Lanka will hold a presidential election on Saturday for the first time since its strongman president fled the country two years ago in the face of protests over an economic collapse. During the 2022 crisis,

President Ranil Wickremesinghe charted a path for Sri Lanka out of its worst financial crisis in decades, but the austerity measures that were key to this recovery may hinder his bid to return to his job in Saturday's presidential election.

Sri Lankans are voting in a presidential election that will determine the course of the country’s recovery from its worst economic crisis and resulting political upheaval

Sri Lankans go to the polls this weekend for the country’s first election since defaulting on piles of sovereign debt in 2022, when the nation plunged into its worst economic crisis across 70 years of independence.

Sajith Premadasa, the leader of Sri Lanka's main opposition party, is a frontrunner in Saturday's presidential election and a win will hand him the top job more than 30 years after his father was assassinated while holding the same post.