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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 ...
Ranil Wickremesinghe (born 24 March 1949) is a Sri Lankan politician serving as the ninth and current President of Sri Lanka. He also holds several ministerial roles, including Minister of Finance, Minister of Defence, Minister of Technology and Minister of Women, Child Affairs and Social Empowerment. Wickremesinghe has led the United National ...
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 ...
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.
The news of his resignation was celebrated by the public mainly at Galle Face and also in the other parts of Colombo. [361] On 15 July, Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abewardhana announced the resignation [362] and Ranil Wickremesinghe was officially sworn in as the Acting President. [363]
Wickremesinghe traveled to Tokyo to attend the state funeral of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.Wickremesinghe held talks on debt restructuring with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and was scheduled to have meetings with other leaders including Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
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 ...
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.