Anura Kumara Dissanayake, the leader of the Marxist JVP’s broader front National People’s Power (NPP), on Sunday consolidated his lead in Sri Lanka’s presidential election.
Presidential candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayaka and his People’s Liberation Front vowed to not scrap the country’s unpopular $2.9 billion IMF bailout agreement, but instead renegotiate it, said politburo member Bimal Ratnayake.
He said, “Our plan is to engage with the IMF and introduce certain amendments,”.
In Sri Lanka elections result 2024: Left-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake is close to registering victory in the Sri Lanka Presidential elections after he got 52% of votes by 7 am on Sunday. The incumbent President, Ranil Wickremesinghe, is trailing way behind with 235,000 votes at 16 %. Sri Lankans went to the polls on Saturday to elect for nation’s 10th president, marking the first election since the devastating 2022 economic crisis. Incumbent President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who succeeded Rajapaksa and has been working to revitalize Sri Lanka’s economy, is running for re-election. He faces competition from Anura Kumara Dissanayake of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) and Sajith Premadasa from the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) party.
Turnout was around 70 % an hour before polling stations closed at 4:00 pm (1030 GMT).Counting to the Sri Lanka elections to declare the 10th President of the nation of 22 million people began at 6pm.
