Anura Kumara to be sworn in as President today

Anura Kumara to be sworn in as President today

September 23, 2024   09:14 am

National People’s Power (NPP) leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake is scheduled to be sworn in today (23) as the 9th Executive President of Sri Lanka.

Mr. Dissanayake is scheduled to be sworn in as the President before Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya this morning at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo.

After a historic first of second round of counting, the country of Sri Lanka has elecetd a new president — Anura Kumara Dissanayake. The 55-year-old fended off competition from opposition leader Sajith Premadasa, while current President, Ranil Wikremesinghe trailed in third.

Dissanayake received 5,740,179 votes, followed by Premadasa with 4,530,902, Election Commission data showed.

Shortly after the second round of counting completed, Dissanayake, the leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) party and head of the alliance named as National People’s Power, said on X, “This achievement is not the result of any single person’s work, but the collective effort of hundreds of thousands of you. Your commitment has brought us this far, and for that, I am deeply grateful. This victory belongs to all of us.”

“The millions of eyes filled with hope and expectation push us forward, and together, we stand ready to rewrite Sri Lankan history,” he added.

He will be sworn in today (September 23) after scoring a significant election victory.

 

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