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Ranil Wickremesinghe (born March 24, 1949) is a Sri Lankan politician who is the 9th and current President of Sri Lanka. He also holds several ministerial positions, including the Minister of Finance, Minister of Defence, Minister of Technology and Minister of Women, Child Affairs and Social Empowerment.
- First Term as Prime Minister
- Removal from Office and Reinstatement
- Economic Crisis
He served his first stint as the prime minister when President Premadasa was assassinated on May 1, 1993, and DB Wijetunga took over the presidency. Following the defeat of the UNP at the hand of late-Prime Minister Bandaranaike’s daughter Chandrika Bandaranaike. After the defeat, Wickremesinghe became the leader of the opposition until he made a c...
A scandal involving the central bank governor, Arjuna Mahendra, a close confidante of Wickremesinghe, quickly soured relations between Wickremesinghe and Sirisena. The scandal led to a dysfunctional government and the president attempted to remove Wickremesinghe as prime minister in 2018, three years into the coalition government. The move, which l...
The next government of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and his brother and President Gotabaya Rajapaksa immediately moved to change the tax structure and reduce high corporate taxes, which caused the country’s deficit to swell. The problem was exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, as Sri Lanka’s main sources of foreign income from tourismand expat...
Jul 21, 2022 · Colombo, Sri Lanka – Ranil Wickremesinghe has been elected Sri Lanka’s new president, less than a week after his predecessor Gotabaya Rajapaksa was forced to flee the country amid mass protests...
Jul 20, 2022 · 20 July 2022. By Simon Fraser & Robert Plummer & George Wright,BBC News. Reuters. Ranil Wickremesinghe has been promoted from being Sri Lanka's prime minister to its new president within a...
Jul 21, 2022 · COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Veteran politician Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka ’s new president Thursday to take charge of a nation bitterly angry he will remain in power amid an...
Jul 20, 2022 · COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — The election of Ranil Wickremesinghe as president of Sri Lanka on Wednesday represented the triumph of establishment politics over a social movement calling for wholesale...
Jul 20, 2022 · Sri Lankan MPs have elected prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as the country's new president, despite his unpopularity with the public. Mr Wickremesinghe faces the task of leading the...
