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Sri Lanka’s election commission declared a previously fringe Marxist politician the country’s president-elect on Sunday after a vote coloured by discontent over the island nation’s response to an unprecedented financial crisis. Anura Kumara Dissanayaka, the 55-year-old leader of the People’s Liberation Front, won the presidency with 42.31 percent of the vote in Saturday’s election, the…
More than 17 million people are eligible to vote in the Sri Lanka presidential election Colombo: Cash-strapped Sri Lanka was voting for its next president Saturday in an effective referendum on an unpopular International Monetary Fund austerity plan enacted after the island nation’s unprecedented financial crisis. President Ranil Wickremesinghe is fighting an uphill battle for…
The campaigning ended at midnight on Wednesday, 48 hours before election day. The people of Sri Lanka are set to vote for a new president on Saturday in an election that will be key in deciding the future reforms in the country that is reeling under an unprecedented economic crisis. More than 17 million Sri…