Ranil Wickremesinghe appointed as the new President of Sri Lanka

Ranil Wickremesinghe appointed as the new President of Sri Lanka

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Category : International Published on: July 22 2022

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  • Six-time Prime Minister and acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe has been on elected as President of Sri Lanka.
  • Sri Lankan MPs have elected Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as the country's new president, despite his unpopularity with the public.
  • He roundly defeated his main rival for the job, Dullus Alahapperuma, with 134 votes to 82 in a parliamentary vote.
  • Wickremesinghe was sworn-in as acting president on July 13 after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled to the Maldives and then to Singapore from where he resigned in the face of public revolt against his government's mishandling of the country's economy.
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