Despite these challenges, the NPP’s victory, with its overwhelming 62% support, signals a shift in Sri Lanka’s political culture. The opposition Samagi Jana Balawegaya, led by Sajith Premadasa, won 35 seats, while the New Democratic Front, backed by former President Ranil Wickremesinghe, secured just three seats.

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissa­nayake thanked voters on Friday for delivering his leftist coalition a landslide victory in snap parliamentary elections that repudiated establishment parties blamed for triggering an economic crisis.

Anura Kumara 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.