Sri Lanka elections: What are voters anticipating?
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The Hindu
On September 21, Sri Lanka will vote for its new President. What units this election other than earlier ones is that it’s the primary because the nation went by means of its worst financial disaster two years in the past.
The Janatha Argalaya, or the individuals’s wrestle, held the Rajapaksa household accountable, and the mass motion booted out the then President, Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
After Gotabaya fled the nation and stop workplace, Ranil Wickremesinghe, a well-known face in Sri Lankan politics for many years, took his place by means of a parliamentary vote that he gained with the help of the Rajapaksas’ occasion, which nonetheless holds a majority within the legislature.
Now, with the Rajapaksas out of focus on this election, the competition is primarily a three-cornered race, between Wickrememsinghe, Sajith Premadasa and Anura Kumara Dissanayake.
Defined | A vital election in Sri Lanka
Reporting and visuals: Meera Srinivasan
Voiceover and manufacturing: Kanishkaa Balachandran
Revealed – September 20, 2024 09:16 pm IST
