When even NPR of all leftist news outlets calls the winner a Marxist you have to wonder! According to Wikipedia his party, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (People's Liberation Front) is a Marxist–Leninist communist party.
Maybe it will be Marxism with a Buddhist touch.
Hopefully, it is welcome change of guards in Sri Lanka after eight decades of domination by a political elite and the winner will overcome the sever economic crisis in this country.
"... Dissanayake, 55, leads the left-leaning coalition National People’s Power, an umbrella of civil society groups, professionals, Buddhist clergy and students. ..."
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