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- Anura Kumara Dissanayake elected as the new president of Sri Lanka.
- Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won Sri Lanka’s presidential election by securing 42.31 percent of the vote.
- Dissanayake sworn in takes place at the Presidential Secretariat.
- In the recent election, the voter turnout was 76 percent, with 17 million Sri Lankans eligible to cast their ballots.
- Sajith Premadasa secured second place with 32.76 percent of the vote.
- Ranil Wickremesinghe stood in third place with 17.27 percent of the vote.
- The election was widely seen as a referendum on Wickremesinghe’s leadership during Sri Lanka’s fragile economic recovery.
- Sri Lanka’s economy remains in a precarious state, despite some improvements since its default in 2022.
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