Anura Kumar Dissanayake (File photograph)
Marxist chief Anura Kumara Dissanayake of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) and Nationwide Folks’s Energy (NPP coalition), was sworn in as Sri Lanka’s president on Monday morning, after a decisive victory within the nation’s presidential elections.
The election outcomes introduced a day earlier, signaled a rejection of the nation’s conventional political elite, extensively blamed for driving Sri Lanka into its worst financial disaster since gaining independence from British rule in 1948.
Dissanayake, 56, took the oath of workplace on the presidential secretariat, administered by chief justice Jayantha Jayasuriya.
He defeated his most important rival, Sajith Premadasa of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB), in Saturday’s vote. Outgoing President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who got here into workplace through the 2022 financial collapse and applied strict austerity measures underneath an IMF bailout, completed a distant third with simply 17.27% of the vote.
As a part of the transition of energy, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena resigned shortly earlier than Dissanayake was sworn in. Gunawardena, 75, had served as prime minister since July 2022.
The election outcomes introduced a day earlier, signaled a rejection of the nation’s conventional political elite, extensively blamed for driving Sri Lanka into its worst financial disaster since gaining independence from British rule in 1948.
Dissanayake, 56, took the oath of workplace on the presidential secretariat, administered by chief justice Jayantha Jayasuriya.
He defeated his most important rival, Sajith Premadasa of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB), in Saturday’s vote. Outgoing President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who got here into workplace through the 2022 financial collapse and applied strict austerity measures underneath an IMF bailout, completed a distant third with simply 17.27% of the vote.
As a part of the transition of energy, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena resigned shortly earlier than Dissanayake was sworn in. Gunawardena, 75, had served as prime minister since July 2022.
