COLOMBO — Sri Lanka's new leftist president is expected to call a snap parliamentary election ahead of his plans to renegotiate the bankrupt island nation's unpopular International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout program.
COLOMBO — Sri Lanka's new leftist president is expected to call a snap parliamentary election ahead of his plans to renegotiate the bankrupt island 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.His once-marginal party currently has just three lawmakers in Sri Lanka's 225-member parliament.
Sri Lanka’s new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake offers prayers at the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic, a Buddhist temple, in the central city of Kandy on Sept. 23, 2024. But support for Dissanayake surged after a 2022 economic meltdown that immiserated millions of ordinary Sri Lankans and a contentious IMF rescue package.Asked by reporters in the central city of Kandy on Monday night if he would keep a campaign pledge to dissolve parliament as soon as he took charge, he replied: 'Wait for two days.
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