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2. Sri Lanka votes in first election since protests ousted president

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   Sri Lanka's former president fled the country in 2022 after months-long protests [Getty Images] ... everyday Sri Lankans continue to feel the pinch. "Jobs are the hardest thing to find," says 32 ...

3. 2024 Sri Lankan presidential election - Wikipedia

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   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. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Incumbent President Ranil Wickremesinghe is seeking re-election as an independent candidate, making him the first sitting president to run for re-election since ...

4. Premadasa, son of slain Sri Lanka president, now in contest ...

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   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 ...

5. Crisis-hit Sri Lanka's poor hope new president will change ...

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   Sri Lankan housewife Lankika Dilrukshi says she is tired of the daily struggle needed to provide for her children. Dilrukshi, 31, is one of the millions of people barely able to make ends meet ...

6. 2024 in Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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   21 May–2 June – 2024 Sri Lanka floods: At least 16 people are killed in flooding and mudslides caused by monsoon rains across the country. [ 67 ] 25 May – Sprinter Yupun Abeykoon wins the gold medal in the Men’s 100m event at the 2024 Anhalt Athletic Championship in Germany with a timing of 10.16 seconds (wind+0.3).

7. Government of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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   Government of Sri Lanka. The Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා රජය, romanized: Śrī Lankā Rajaya; Tamil: இலங்கை அரசாங்கம்) is a Semi-presidential republic determined by the Sri Lankan Constitution. It administers the island from both its commercial capital of Colombo and ...

8. Next Sri Lankan local elections - Wikipedia

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   Next Sri Lankan local elections. Local elections have not been held in Sri Lanka since 2018. Elections were originally scheduled to be held in 2022, but were postponed to 2023 due to the worsening economic crisis and instability in the country, before being postponed again several times by the government of President Ranil Wickremesinghe. [1][2 ...

9. Cabinet of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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   In Sri Lanka, the Cabinet of Ministers is the council of senior ministers responsible and answerable to the Parliament of Sri Lanka. The President is a member of the cabinet and its head. [ 1 ] The current cabinet is the Wickremesinghe cabinet, [ 2 ] which consists of 21 ministers since 6 October 2023. [ 3 ]