Anura Kumara Dissanayake is new Sri Lanka president, declared winner after ‘unprecedented’ second round of counting
Dissanayake was declared winner of the Sri Lankan presidential election by the country's Election Commission.
Colombo: Sri Lanka has got their new president after it became announced on Sunday, 22 September 2024 that Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake has been declared winner of the Sri Lankan presidential election by the u . s .’s Election Commission after an unprecedented 2d round of counting of votes. He defeated his closest rival Sajith Premadasa of Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB).
Anura Kumara Dissanayake, fifty six, will take oath as Sri Lanka’s ninth president.
He is the leader of the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna birthday party’s broader front National People’s Power (NPP).
Incumbent president Ranil Wickremesinghe became eliminated in the first round after he failed to reveal within the highest two in the vote list.
Dissanayake will take oath on Monday, said NPP.
Earlier, the Election Commission ordered a 2d round of counting after no candidate secured over 50 per cent votes needed to be declared the winner of Saturday’s (September 21) election which is unprecedented in the island nation’s political history.
In Sri Lanka’s electoral history, no election has progressed to a 2d round of counting, with single candidates on the total securing clear victories according to first-preference votes.
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