Anura Kumara Dissanayake[b] (born 24 November 1968), commonly referred to by his initials AKD, is a Sri Lankan politician who has been the tenth and current president of Sri Lanka since 2024. [1][2][3][4] Dissanayake is the first Sri Lankan president to be elected in a second round of vote counting, [5][6] and the first elected president not fro...

The JVP secured 6,863,186 votes, the highest ever obtained by a single political party in a general election, surpassing the 6,853,690 votes won by the SLPFA in 2020. The JVP also won a record breaking 61.56% of the total vote, overtaking the previous record of …

2024年11月25日 · From 418,553 (3.16%) votes in the 2019 presidential election, AKD increased his vote tally to 5,634,915 (42.31%) in the 2024 Presidential poll. After becoming the ninth executive president of Sri Lanka, Anura Kumara Dissanayake has led the NPP to a glorious triumph at the Parliamentary elections.

2024年10月9日 · In this week’s second part, AKD’s steady rise as a political leader within the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) will be related to some extent. As stated in this column last week , the JVP’s second insurgency was ruthlessly …

Anura Kumara Dissanayake (born 24 November 1968), commonly referred to by his initials AKD, is a Sri Lankan politician who is the current President of Sri Lanka. Unlike most of Sri Lanka’s past Presidents, Dissanayake was not born into a political background and does not belong to the traditional political parties of Sri Lanka.

2024年2月9日 · “The political party (JVP) that taught Sri Lanka “Indian expansionism” is silent today, because they are also strong members of the Indian process of taking over Sri Lanka. It is India’s desire to use the intense economic crisis in Sri Lanka today, sign the ETKA Agreement, and spread Indian domination economically and politically.

2024年11月21日 · Professor S.D. Muni’s recent remarks on Sri Lankan politics, delivered at a university in India, have raised eyebrows and stirred debate. In his speech, he claimed that Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD), leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) and the National People’s Power (NPP), owes his rise to the United States. Additionally, he ...

2023年12月3日 · The story of AKD and the JVP’s bid for the presidency is woven from the threads of history, personal struggle, and the relentless pursuit of a new political epoch. In the unfolding narrative of Sri Lanka’s political theatre, Anura Kumara Dissanayake stands …

2024年9月30日 · The leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP, People’s Liberation Front) and its National People’s Power (NPP) coalition, who is popularly known as “AKD,” now sits where a popular uprising two years ago drove out Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the mid-term point in …

2024年9月24日 · Now the country's name makes sense for the first time since the 1970s, at least nominally. That President is Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD). AKD, as he's known on the street, is a member of a party called the JVP. The JVP were a brutally suppressed Marxist-Leninist party that has basically suppressed its Marxist-Leninism.