evidence: So who is president-elect Anura Kumara Dissanayake? [...] Dissanayake, who was elected to the JVP’s central committee in 1997 and became its leader in 2008, has since apologised for the group’s violence during this so-called "season of terror". [...] The JVP, which currently has just three seats in parliament, is part of the NPP coalition that Dissanayake now heads.