Police said the voting period passed without any incidents of violence, unlike most ballots of recent years.
Mr Anura Kumara Dissanayake took power in September presidential elections on a promise to combat graft and recover the country’s stolen assets.COLOMBO - Sri Lanka’s new president Anura Kumara Dissanayake was confident of a victory as polls closed in snap legislative elections on Nov 14.on a promise to combat graft and recover the country’s stolen assets, two years after an unprecedented economic meltdown, when then-president Gotabaya Rajapaksa was ousted.
“At this election, the NPP expects a mandate for a very strong majority in parliament,” he said, referring to the National People’s Power coalition in which his People’s Liberation Front is the main constituent. “I expect a new country, a new government that is friendly towards the people,” 70-year-old pensioner Milton Gankandage, who was among the first to vote in Colombo’s Wellawatte district, told AFP.Mr Dissanayake had been an MP for nearly 25 years and was briefly an agriculture minister, but his NPP coalition held just three seats in the outgoing assembly.
The country’s main private sector lobby, the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce , is tacitly supporting Mr Dissanayake and his programme. Opposition leader Sajith Premadasa, who had campaigned to take part in a coalition government, vowed in his final campaign rally to “put pressure” on Mr Dissanayake to honour promised tax cuts.
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