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Newsday: 21/07/2022 04:06 GMT : Ranil Wickremesinghe elected as Sri Lanka president

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21/07/2022 04:06 GMT : Ranil Wickremesinghe elected as Sri Lanka president

Ranil Wickremesinghe elected as Sri Lanka president

BBC World Service - Newsday, Ranil Wickremesinghe elected as Sri Lanka president

‘I am not a friend of the Rajapaksas. I am a friend of the people’

MPs picked him as successor to ousted Gotabaya Rajapaksa, blamed for the nation’s economic crisis

Sri Lankan lawmakers voted in acting President, Ranil Wickremesinghe, as the new president on Wednesday, hoping his long experience in government can help pull the country out of a crippling economic and political crisis.

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