Sri Lankans vote in Anura Kumara Dissanayake as next president

Parliamentarian Anura Kumara Dissanayake won Sri Lanka’s presidential election after a historic second round of ranked ballot counting. The 55-year-old Marxist-leaning candidate, who heads the National People's Party (NPP) coalition, takes over a country mired in a fragile economic recovery.

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