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Sri Lanka’s new outsider president in with a chance
On 23 September 2024, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, a left-leaning candidate, was sworn in as the President of Sri Lanka. This was the first election held since mass protests overthrew the country’s former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa in July 2022, after Sri …