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As Anura Kumara Dissanayake took oaths as the ninth executive president of Sri Lanka on 23 September, the nation was left to
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Sri Lanka’s new president has chosen his prime minister – selecting a woman for the third time in the country’s history. Anura Kumara Dissanayake named former university lecturer-turned-MP Harini Amarasuriya as prime minister on Tuesday – also giving her ministerial responsibility for justice, education and labour. Both are part of the left-leaning National People’s Power alliance, which has just three seats in Sri Lanka’s 225 seat parliament. BBC – September 24, 2024 The remaining interim cabinet roles were shared out between the party’s two other MPs, as speculation continued to mount over a potential parliamentary election being called in the…
Sri Lanka’s leftist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake took office as president on Monday, promising change in the island nation long led
Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in as Sri Lanka’s president on Monday after an election that saw voters reject an
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Reuters – September 22, 2024 Sri Lanka’s Marxist-leaning leader, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, won the presidential election for the debt-ridden island nation, local TV said on Sunday, citing Election Commission figures.
Voting has ended Saturday in Sri Lanka’s presidential election as the country seeks to recover from the worst economic crisis in its history and the resulting political upheaval. The election, contested by 38 candidates, is largely a three-way race among incumbent liberal President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Marxist-leaning lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake, and opposition leader Sajith Premadasa. There are 17 million eligible voters, and final results are expected Sunday. Associated Press – September 21, 2024 The results will show whether Sri Lankans approve of Wickremesinghe’s leadership of a fragile recovery, including restructuring Sri Lanka’s debt under an International Monetary Fund program after it…
Sri Lanka reached a draft deal with creditors to restructure $12.5 billion of international bonds, it said on Thursday, in a major boost to the island nation’s fragile recovery just two days before its presidential election. The country defaulted on its foreign debt for the first time ever in May 2022, engulfed in a severe crisis and buckling under its high debt burden and dwindling foreign exchange reserves. The agreement comes after Sri Lanka began a third round of formal debt restructuring talks with bondholders last week. The country had to renegotiate parts of a previous draft deal, which it…