Speaking at his final rally before Sri Lanka’s presidential election last week, Anura Kumara Dissanayake promised to lead the country’s “first-ever uprising of people to form their own government through the ballot”.
Dissanayake’s subsequent victory over candidates from Sri Lanka’s two long-ruling political camps has put the left-wing populist — who has cited Marx, Lenin and Engels as his top heroes — at the pinnacle of the island’s politics.
Sri Lanka’s establishment and some foreign diplomatic and economic partners are unsettled by the historic role played by Dissanayake’s People’s Liberation Front (JVP) in violent uprisings against the state.
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