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Thirty-eight candidates are running for president of the Asian nation of Sri Lanka, which is still recovering from a 2022 economic collapse. Its incumbent president faces a tight race.
Sri Lankans are voting for a new president in the first election since mass protests sparked by the country's worst-ever economic crisis unseated the leader in 2022. Saturday's vote is widely ...
2024 Sri Lankan presidential election. The 2024 Sri Lankan presidential election is the 9th presidential election and is being held on 21 September 2024, where voters will choose a president for a five-year term. [3][4] Incumbent President Ranil Wickremesinghe ran for re-election as an independent candidate, making him the first sitting ...
More than 17 million of Sri Lanka's 22 million people are eligible to vote at the presidential election that has shaped up to be a close contest between incumbent President Ranil Wickremesinghe ...
On 20 July, he was elected as the 9th President of Sri Lanka by the Parliament of Sri Lanka in a secret ballot to serve the remainder of Rajapaksa's term, which was supposed to end in November 2024. He defeated his main rival, Dullas Alahapperuma , with 134 votes to 82.
Prior to the formation of the President's Guard, army personnel served as a squadron under the President's Security Division since 1996 and focused on key tasks including the perimeter security of the presidential residence, Temple Trees. 5th Regiment Sri Lanka Armoured Corps was the first army unit chosen to be in the dedicated security of the ...
Sajith Premadasa, the leader of Sri Lanka's main opposition party, is a frontrunner in Saturday's presidential election and a win will hand him the top job more than 30 years after his father was ...
The President of Sri Lanka is directly elected by voters for a five-year term. [1] ... This page was last edited on 19 September 2024, at 17:18 (UTC).