'For the greater good of my country that I love and the people I cherish, I hereby withdraw my candidacy for the position of president,' Sajith Premadasa says.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Sri Lankan opposition leader Sajith Premadasa announced on Tuesday, July 19, he had dropped out of the race to become president of the crisis-hit nation and promised his support to a rival candidate set to take on acting president Ranil Wickremesinghe.
He said his main opposition Samagi Jana Balawegaya party and “our alliance and our opposition partners will work hard towards making” Dullas Alahapperuma the winner. Another presidential contestant is Anura Kumara Dissanayaka, the leader of the left-wing Janatha Vimukti Peramuna party.Hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic and tax cuts by the Rajapaksa government, Sri Lanka is in the midst of its worst economic crisis since it won independence from Britain in 1948.
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