Jul 15, 2022 · 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...
Jul 21, 2022 · Ranil Wickremesinghe sworn in as Sri Lankan president amid unrest. The six-time prime minister and veteran politician is an unpopular choice among protesters who forced his predecessor out. Ranil ...
In the elections held on 8 January 2015, Common Candidate Maithripala Sirisena was selected as the 6th President of Sri Lanka and on 9 January 2015 when he was sworn in, he appointed Ranil Wickremesinghe as the Prime Minister of the Sri Lankan Parliament. Dissent within the UNP
Jul 20, 2022 · Wickremesinghe comes from a storied political family. His father was a newspaper baron, the owner of the present day Lake House group of papers, which was nationalised by Prime Minister Sirima Bandaranaike in the 1970s. His uncle was J R Jayewardene, who brought in the executive presidency system through a new Constitution in 1978.
Jul 22, 2022 · Dinesh Gunawardena, 73, has taken oath as Sri Lanka 's new prime minister on Friday. He was sworn in at the Prime Minister’s Office on Flower Road, Colombo, a day after Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as the new president of the island nation. Wickremesinghe himself was the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka six times before finally becoming the ...
May 12, 2022 · Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Thursday appointed former PM Ranil Wickremesinghe as Premier, in a bid to restore stability in the island nation in the midst of a political impasse...
May 12, 2022 · Wickremesinghe is the sole parliamentary representative of the United National Party, a once-powerful political force that was nearly wiped out in Sri Lanka's last elections. The former lawyer hails from a political family and his uncle Junius Jayewardene served as president for more than a decade.
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