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The president appoints the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka who can command the confidence of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. [citation needed] Anura Kumara Dissanayake is the 10th and current president, having assumed office on 23 September 2024, after being declared the winner of the 2024 presidential election. [2] [3] [4]
The president of Sri Lanka is the elected head of state and the chief executive of Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon). The president is a dominant political figure in the country. The office was created in 1972, as more of a ceremonial position. It was empowered with executive powers by the 1978 Constitution introduced by J. R. Jayewardene.
[7] [8] On 21 July, he was sworn in as the ninth (eighth executive) President of Sri Lanka at the Parliament premises before Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya. [167] [168] A day later, he appointed Dinesh Gunawardena as prime minister. [169] Wickremesinghe meets with Britain's King Charles III at a Reception held at the Buckingham Palace on 5 ...
(Reuters) -Sri Lanka's newly elected President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has dissolved parliament to clear the way for a snap general election in the debt-ridden country, he said in a government ...
The 2024 Sri Lankan presidential election was the ninth presidential election in the country’s history and was held on 21 September 2024. [4][5] Incumbent President Ranil Wickremesinghe ran for re-election as an independent candidate, making him the first sitting president to run for re-election since Mahinda Rajapaksa in 2015. [6][7][8 ...
Sri Lanka will hold a parliamentary election on Nov. 14, the government announced on Tuesday, less than two months after the Indian Ocean island nation elected Anura Kumara Dissanayake as its new ...
Anura Kumara Dissanayake. Dissanayaka Mudiyanselage Anura Kumara Dissanayake[a] (born 24 November 1968), commonly referred to by his initials AKD, is a Sri Lankan politician currently serving as the tenth president of Sri Lanka since 2024. [1][2] He is the current party leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) and the National People's Power.
In 2018, Sirisena appointed the former president Mahinda Rajapaksa (his former rival) as the prime minister, wrote a letter firing Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe (with whose major support he became the president in 2015) and prorogued Parliament, all in apparent contradiction to the Constitution of Sri Lanka, instigating a constitutional ...