Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake clinched a sweeping election victory, promising transformative leftist policies. With a two-thirds parliamentary majority, he faces the significant challenge of guiding the country through its worst financial crisis since gaining independence in 1948,

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s leftist coalition registered a landslide victory in Sri Lanka’s snap parliamentary elections, according to official results announced by the country’s election commission.

The party of Sri Lanka’s new Marxist-leaning President Anura Kumara Dissanayake won a two-thirds majority in parliament, according to official election results Friday, providing a strong mandate for his program for economic revival.