ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s parliamentary election results showed unity among the island nation’s different ethnic and religious people in backing President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s request for a clean parliament, but a weaker opposition that could threaten the country’s fragile democracy.

Millions of Sri Lankans are voting on Thursday in snap parliamentary elections, weeks after the election of left-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake as president. More than 17 million voters are eligible to cast their ballots,

Sri Lankans are voting in a parliamentary election that’s key for their new, Marxist-leaning president to consolidate his party’s power and follow through on promises of economic recovery