Sri Lanka's acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Opposition leader Sajith Premadasa among four candidates in race to become country's next President

Sri Lanka's acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Opposition leader Sajith Premadasa among four candidates in race to become country's next President

• Sri Lanka's acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe, main Opposition leader Sajith Premadasa are among the four candidates who have joined the race to become the country's next President. Lawmakers met on Saturday to start the process of electing a new President to succeed Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after unprecedented protests against his government over the country's economic collapse.
• Besides Wickremesinghe and Premadasa, Marxist JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake and Dullas Alahapperuma, are the other two leaders who have so far announced their candidacy to contest the July 20 vote in Parliament to succeed Rajapaksa for the rest of his term until November 2024.

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Published date : 18 Jul 2022 04:03PM