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Presidential elections will be held in Sri Lanka on 21 September 2024. [1] [2] Voters will elect a president for a 5-year term. Incumbent president Ranil Wickremesinghe is running for re-election as an independent candidate. [3] [4] [5] This would make him the first incumbent president to run for re-election since Mahinda Rajapaksa in 2015.
t. e. Parliamentary elections are scheduled to be held in Sri Lanka before August 2025 according to the constitution. The president has the power under the constitution to hold elections two and half years after the previous elections, which took place in August 2020. [1]
1999 Election. 1994 Election. 1988 Election. 1982 Election. Percentages of votes received by political parties in the direct presidential elections. United National Party / New Democratic Front candidates. Sri Lanka Freedom Party candidates. Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna candidates. Others.
BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI. August 15, 2024 at 3:53 AM. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s elections commission on Thursday accepted applications from a record 39 candidates to run in next month ...
July 29, 2024 at 9:28 AM. By Uditha Jayasinghe. COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe failed on Monday to secure the backing of the biggest political party in parliament for ...
The election will be Sri Lanka's first major poll since it ran out of foreign reserves, sending its economy into freefall and forcing it to default on its foreign debt in 2022. ... 2024 at 2:16 AM ...
24 January – The controversial Online Safety Bill is passed by the Parliament of Sri Lanka by a 108–62 vote. The bill is widely criticised by human rights groups, journalists and opposition politicians as a means of stifling freedom of speech in Sri Lanka. [12] [13] [14]
By Uditha Jayasinghe. COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's incumbent President Ranil Wickremesinghe became the first candidate to officially register for the presidential election on Sept. 21, in which ...