Sri Lanka’s Marxist-leaning Dissanayake wins presidential election, local TV says

COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s Marxist-leaning leader, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, won the presidential election for the debt-ridden island nation, local TV said on Sunday, citing Election Commission figures.

(Reporting by Uditha Jayasinghe and Sudipto Ganguly in Colombo, writing by Pushkala Aripaka; Editing by Tomasz Janowski)