Lanka votes for new parliament in largely peaceful poll

PTI

Colombo, Updated At : 05:37 AM Nov 15, 2024 IST

President Anura Dissanayake casts his vote in the parliamentary poll. PTI

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Sri Lanka on Thursday voted to elect a new parliament, a first major test for the ruling National People’s Power (NPP) party led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake.

The snap parliamentary poll are the first after the 2022 economic crisis. Dissanayake said he would be happy to finish short of an absolute majority of 150 seats in the 225-member Parliament. Poll monitoring groups said the turnout out was lower than the high 79 per cent recorded at the presidential election held in September.

The election commission said it anticipated an overall turnout of 65 per cent in the polling concluded in a largely peaceful manner across the country.

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