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Gavin Butler - BBC News. September 20, 2024 at 4:05 PM. Sri Lanka's former president fled the country in 2022 after months-long protests [Getty Images] Sri Lankans will elect a new president in ...
By Uditha Jayasinghe. COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's presidential candidates wrapped up their campaigning on Wednesday, 48 hours before the election, pledging to fix the island country's ailing ...
Signature. Dissanayaka Mudiyanselage Anura Kumara Dissanayake[ a ] (born 24 November 1968), commonly referred to by his initials AKD, is a Sri Lankan politician serving as the tenth president of Sri Lanka since 2024. [ 1 ][ 2 ] He is the current party leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) and the National People's Power.
Lankapuvath was established by Sri Lankan press baron, lawyer and one-time editorial managing director of the largest and most prominent newspaper group, The Lake House Group (which is the home of the Associated Newspapers of Ceylon), Esmond Wickremesinghe, the father of Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.
Sri Lanka, [ b ] historically known as Ceylon, [ c ] and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian peninsula by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait.
About 17 million of Sri Lanka's 22 million people are eligible to vote in the first election since protests against the economic hardships in 2022 forced then president Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee ...
President Ranil Wickremesinghe is among the 38 candidates contesting Sri Lanka's presidential election on Saturday, a poll that is key to deciding the future of reforms in a nation battling its ...
SLPP. The 2019 Sri Lankan presidential election was the 8th presidential election, held on 16 November 2019. [1][2] Incumbent president Maithripala Sirisena did not run for a second term. Gotabaya Rajapaksa, brother of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa, was the candidate of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna [3] and was endorsed by the Sri Lanka ...