COLOMBO — Sri Lanka's new leftist president dissolved parliament late on Tuesday and called a snap election as he prepares to renegotiate the bankrupt nation's unpopular International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout program.
COLOMBO — Sri Lanka's new leftist president dissolved parliament late on Tuesday and called a snap election as he prepares to renegotiate the bankrupt nation's unpopular International Monetary Fund bailout program.Self-avowed Marxist Anura Kumara Dissanayake of the People's Liberation Front, or JVP, was sworn into office on Monday after a landslide win in weekend presidential polls.
The group will share all ministerial responsibilities between them and also act as caretaker ministers after parliament is dissolved.'We will have the smallest Cabinet in the history of Sri Lanka,' party member Namal Karunaratne told reporters on Tuesday.Just before the parliament's dissolution, the government announced that Dissanayake would address the nation on Wednesday night.
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