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Ranil Wickremesinghe won the election with 134 votes and was elected as the ninth President (eighth executive President) of Sri Lanka. [5] The election, which was held amid a political crisis , [ 6 ] was the first time in the history of Sri Lanka that a vote took place in Parliament to elect a President.
COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe failed on Monday to secure the backing of the biggest political party in parliament for his re-election bid, posing a major challenge ...
The 2024 Sri Lankan presidential election is scheduled to be 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 Mahinda Rajapaksa in 2015.
Sri Lanka's President Ranil Wickremesinghe received backing from 92 lawmakers in the parliament on Tuesday, his media office said, giving momentum to his reelection bid in a vote in September. A ...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa appointed Ranil Wickremesinghe as the new PM on 12 May 2022. On 9 July, Rajapaksa announces his intention to resign as President of Sri Lanka on 13 July 2022. Rajapaksa flees the country on 13 July, fails to resign as pledged, and designates Wickremesinghe acting president in his absence. [1] [2] [3]
Protests resumed in Sri Lanka's capital Colombo Wednesday shortly after lawmakers elected the country's widely unpopular prime minister and acting president, Ranil Wickremesinghe, as the new ...
This is a list of presidential international trips made by Ranil Wickremesinghe, the 9th and current President of Sri Lanka since 21 July 2022. Wickremesinghe, then Prime Minister, meets with Narendra Modi in New Delhi, October 2018.
Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lankan president during a ceremony at the country’s parliament building on Thursday, July 21.Wickremesinghe was elected as president by Sri Lankan ...