COLOMBO: Sri Lanka will vote on Sep 21 to elect a new president, a government notice said on Friday (Jul 26), a crucial contest that is expected to determine the future of reforms in the South Asian island nation weathering its worst financial crisis in decades.
Nominations for the election have to be submitted on Aug 15, the notice added.
Incumbent President Ranil Wickremesinghe is widely expected to run in the election, with almost 17 million of Sri Lanka's 22 million population eligible to vote.
Wickremesinghe, 75, took office in July 2022 after widespread protests caused by the debilitating financial crisis forced his predecessor Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country and later resign.
Parliament elected Wickremesinghe to serve out the rest of the five-year-term vacated by Rajapaksa who was elected in November 2019.
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Nominations for the election have to be submitted on Aug 15, the notice added.
Incumbent President Ranil Wickremesinghe is widely expected to run in the election, with almost 17 million of Sri Lanka's 22 million population eligible to vote.
Wickremesinghe, 75, took office in July 2022 after widespread protests caused by the debilitating financial crisis forced his predecessor Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country and later resign.
Parliament elected Wickremesinghe to serve out the rest of the five-year-term vacated by Rajapaksa who was elected in November 2019.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asi...owth-debt-international-monetary-fund-4506226
