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Jul 22, 2022 · A stalwart of Sri Lankan politics, Mr. Gunawardena was appointed as the Prime Minister on July 22, a day after Ranil Wickremesinghe was elevated to President's post. Mr. Gunawardena, 73, earlier ...
Jul 20, 2022 · Wickremesinghe: Lawyer, former minister, the fox A lawyer who served as Sri Lanka's prime minister a record six times, Wickremesinghe finally made it to the top job, after being in the Parliament ...
Jul 15, 2022 · AP. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka ’s interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after ...
Jul 20, 2022 · Ranil Wickremesinghe (73), who gained his nickname for his apparently wily ability to repeatedly resurrect his political career, has been prime minister six times since he first entered politics ...
Jul 21, 2022 · Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as the new president of Sri Lanka by the Chief Justice in parliament. Sri Lanka's Ranil Wickremesinghe has been sworn in as president, amid hopes that he will ...
Jul 20, 2022 · Mr Wickremesinghe’s party – the United National Party (UNP) – claims to be Sri Lanka’s oldest political party. It has been the governing party or in a governing coalition in the country ...
Wickremesinghe was first appointed the prime minister in 1993 after the assassination of then-president Ranasinghe Premadasa, who was killed in a bomb attack by LTTE during Sri Lanka's decades ...
