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Sri Lankan President-elect Ranil Wickremesinghe is sworn into office | South China Morning Post

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Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as the new president of Sri Lanka by the country’s chief justice on July 21, 2022. The six-time prime minister won 134 votes in the 225-member parliament in a vote count on July 20, after his predecessor Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country and resigned from his post the previous wee…

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