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.

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.

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,