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Anura Kumara Dissanayake wins Sri Lanka's presidential election

CGTN

 , Updated 22:28, 22-Sep-2024

Sri Lanka's election commission formally announced on Sunday Anura Kumara Dissanayake of the National People's Power the winner of the presidential election, defeating incumbent Ranil Wickremesinghe.

The commission said on its website that Dissanayake, 55, won the presidency with 42.31 percent of the vote at Saturday's election.

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