Sri Lanka’s new leftist leader dissolves parliament, calls snap polls

Sri Lanka’s new leftist president dissolved parliament on Tuesday and called a snap election as he prepares to renegotiate the bankrupt nation’s unpopular International Monetary Fund bailout programme. Self-avowed Marxist Anura Kumara Dissanayake of the People’s Liberation Front (JVP) was sworn into office on Monday after a landslide win in weekend presidential polls. Late Tuesday […]

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