2024 Sri Lankan presidential election - Wikipedia
WEBPresidential elections are being held in Sri Lanka 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. [4] [5] [6]
Sri Lankans vote in a presidential election that will decide how it ...
WEB15 hours ago · COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankans began voting Saturday in a presidential election that will determine the course of the country’s recovery from its worst economic crisis and resulting political upheaval.. The election, contested by 38 candidates, is largely a three-way race among incumbent liberal President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Marxist-leaning lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake, and ...
A Tight Race in Sri Lanka Two Years After Its President Fled
WEB13 hours ago · Sept. 21, 2024, 12:01 a.m. ET. Sri Lanka will hold a presidential election on Saturday for the first time since its strongman president fled the country two years ago in the face of protests over ...
Sri Lanka's 'social contract is in pieces'. How will they vote in the ...
WEB1 day ago · At the height of Sri Lanka's economic crisis in 2022, after months at a protest camp calling for the resignation of the country's president, Nixon Chandrenthan finally had a good night's sleep ...
Sri Lanka election 2024: Who could be the next president, what’s …
WEB1 day ago · An independent body called the Election Commission of Sri Lanka (ECSL) oversees the election. About 17 million people out of Sri Lanka’s 22-million population are eligible to vote. Sri Lankan ...
Crisis-hit Sri Lanka votes in crucial election to decide economic ...
WEB19 hours ago · Over 13,000 polling stations were set up across the country and 250,000 public officials deployed to manage the election, R.M.L. Rathnayake, the head of Sri Lanka's election commission, told Reuters.
Who are the five key candidates in Sri Lanka's presidential election ...
WEB2 days ago · President Ranil Wickremesinghe is among the 38 candidates contesting Sri Lanka's presidential election on Saturday, a poll that is key to deciding the future of reforms in a nation battling its ...
Sri Lanka votes in first election since financial meltdown
WEB8 hours ago · September 21, 2024 at 5:13 a.m. EDT. NEW DELHI — Roughly 17 million Sri Lankans are heading to the polls in the first election since one of the country’s worst financial meltdowns, with ...
Sri Lanka’s presidential election a test for current leader, 2 years ...
WEB2 days ago · Sri Lanka’s presidential election a test for current leader, 2 years after its economy hit bottom. ... FILE - Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe waves to supporters as he arrives to address a public election rally in Minuwangoda, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh, File)
What's at stake in Sri Lanka's first presidential vote since its ...
WEBSep 6, 2024 · COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka will hold its presidential election on Sept. 21 in a crucial vote that will decide the future of the South Asian nation still struggling to recover from its economic collapse in 2022, which provoked mass protests and forced the former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country and later resign.
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