(15 Nov 2024)
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Colombo – 15 November 2024
1. Various of security
2. Various of election results on a large screen
3. People watching the election results
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Sisira Aberathna, Manager:
“Actually this was expected from Sri Lankan people that we have got today. So we think we will do the best with all people expecting some change actually. So now people have got it. So we expect this government will do the best in the future."
5. Various of screen
6. Various of people cheering
STORYLINE:
The party of Sri Lanka’s new Marxist-leaning President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won a majority in parliament, according to official election results Friday, providing a solid mandate for his program for economic revival.
Dissanayake’s National People’s Power Party won at least 123 of the 225 seats in parliament, according to partial results released by the Elections Commission.
The Samagi Jana Balawegaya, or United People’s Power Party, led by opposition leader Sajith Premedasa had 31 seats.
Dissanayake was elected president on Sept. 21 in a rejection of traditional political parties that have governed the island nation since its independence from British rule in 1948. But he received just 42% of the votes, fueling questions over his party’s outlook in Thursday’s parliamentary elections. But the party received large increases in support less than two months into his presidency.
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