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The president of Sri Lanka is the elected head of state and the chief executive of Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon). The president is a dominant political figure in the country. The office was created in 1972, as more of a ceremonial position. It was empowered with executive powers by the 1978 Constitution introduced by J. R. Jayewardene.
The president of Sri Lanka ( Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා ජනාධිපති Śrī Laṃkā Janādhipathi; Tamil: இலங்கை சனாதிபதி Ilankai janātipati) is the head of state and head of government of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. The president is the chief executive of the union ...
2001–2019: Leader of the United National Front for Good Governance [ a] Ranil Wickremesinghe[ b] (born 24 March 1949) is a Sri Lankan politician who is the 9th and current President of Sri Lanka. [ 1][ 2] He also holds several ministerial positions, including the Minister of Finance, Minister of Defence, Minister of Technology and Minister of ...
Sri Lanka's President Ranil Wickremesinghe received backing from 92 lawmakers in the parliament on Tuesday, his media office said, giving momentum to his reelection bid in a vote in September. A ...
The Sri Lanka Peoples’ Front said the 38-year-old lawyer Namal Rajapaksa, the eldest son of former strongman president Mahinda Rajapaksa, will be its candidate in the Sept. 21 election, the ...
Presidential elections will be held in Sri Lanka on 21 September 2024. [1] [2] Voters will elect a president for a 5-year term. Incumbent president Ranil Wickremesinghe is running for re-election as an independent candidate. [3] [4] [5] This would make him the first incumbent president to run for re-election since Mahinda Rajapaksa in 2015.
7), the Monarch of the United Kingdom the served as the head of state of Ceylon, and was represented in Ceylon by a Governor-General. Ceylon became a republic under the Constitution of 1972, and the Monarch and Governor-General were replaced by a ceremonial President. Since 1978, under the current constitution, the president has executive ...
In 2018, Sirisena appointed the former president Mahinda Rajapaksa (his former rival) as the Prime Minister, wrote a letter firing Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe (with whose major support he became the president in 2015) and prorogued Parliament, all in apparent contradiction to the Constitution of Sri Lanka, instigating a constitutional ...