The Sri Lanka ruling party wins local elections. world News
Colombo, May 07, 2025 -The Left Government of Sari Lanka won the local council elections, but in its first trial in the national elections last year, in its first trial, in its first test, in its first test, the official results were shown on Wednesday.President Anura Kumara Dysonayke’s alliance got the highest number of votes out of 339 councils, but about half of them fell down by a lump sum majority.The main opposition SJB won only 14 councils, while the country’s main minority Tamil Party, Tamil National Alliance performed better, won 35.Former presidents, Ranil Wickramasinghe and Mahinda Rajapaksa failed to win control over a single council, but won 1,123 out of 8,299 council seats between them.Left -wing NPP would require support from other parties to control around 130 councils where it decreased by an absolute majority, but has denied any alliance with traditional parties.The NPP vote share of Dissanayke, reserved in the November parliamentary election, fell to 43.3 percent. The main protest SJB made a marginal profit, reaching 21.7 percent, which was above 17.70 percent.Dissanayac, who harassed the more established parties to win the September presidential election, created his popularity to secure the parliamentary vote held two months later.The 56-year-old has created a U-turn since coming to power on his pledge to re-organize the terms of an unpopular IMF bailout, agreed by his predecessor, and maintained high tariffs.He had converted local elections into a referendum on his six -month administration, saying that his party was required to secure local councils so that all layers of the government were “free from corruption and spatial waste”.About 60 percent of 17.14 million voters went out to vote on Tuesday, about 70 percent in November and 80 percent in September President’s vote.There was a lack of the campaign, with no high-profile figures in running.
