
Sri Lanka’s New Outsider President In With A Chance – Analysis
By Ganeshan Wignaraja
On 23 September 2024, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, a left-leaning candidate, was sworn in asthePresident of Sri Lanka. This was the first election heldsincemass protests overthrew the country’s former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa in July2022, after Sri Lanka defaulted on its sovereign debt and suffered a...