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Sajith Premadasa gets highest share of Tamil vote in Sri Lanka polls

September 22, 2024 admin

Sajith Premadasa waves as he arrives at the election commission office in Colombo in Sri Lanka on September 22, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Sri Lanka’s Leader of Opposition Sajith Premadasa, who lost to leftist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake in Saturday’s (September 21, 2024) presidential election, garnered the highest share of the Tamil minority’s vote,…

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Who is Anura Kumara Dissanayake, the new President of Sri Lanka?

September 22, 2024 admin

“100% sure.” That is what Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Sri Lanka’s President-elect, said days before the September 21 election, when a visiting journalist asked if he could win the presidential race. His calm confidence could have had only one basis — the certainty that he embodies the change Sri Lankans emphatically want. When Mr. Dissanayake, popularly…

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Anura Kumara Dissanayake elected Sri Lanka President

September 22, 2024 admin

National People’s Power leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake secures Presidential victory in Sri Lanka Presidential election 2024 on Sunday. | Photo Credit: AP Sri Lanka’s election commission declared a previously fringe politician the country’s president-elect on Sunday (September 22, 2024) after a vote coloured by discontent over the island nation’s response to an unprecedented financial crisis….

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Sri Lanka presidential election goes to historic second count after no candidate secured over 50% vote

September 22, 2024 admin

Police commandos stand guard, as a countrywide curfew was imposed then, outside a ballot counting center during the presidential election in Colombo, on September 22, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP In a historic first, Sri Lanka’s presidential election on Sunday (September 22, 2024) went into a second round of counting after no candidate secured over…

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