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This triggered an indirect presidential election via Parliament a week later, to elect a successor according to the Article 40 of the Constitution. [14] Ranil Wickremesinghe, who had been appointed as Prime Minister by Rajapaksa just two months earlier, received the most votes and was sworn in as the 9th President of Sri Lanka on 21 July 2022 ...
The 17th Parliament of Sri Lanka, known officially as the 10th Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is the current Parliament of Sri Lanka, with its membership determined by the results of the 2024 parliamentary election held on 14 November 2024. [1] [2] The parliament met for the first time on 21 November 2024. [3]
On 14 November 2023, following a case filed by Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL) and other four activists, the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka found Rajapaksa, his brothers Mahinda and Basil and several other officials guilty of economic mismanagement between 2019 and 2022, stating that the respondents breached the fundamental rights to ...
On 9 July, Rajapaksa announces his intention to resign as President of Sri Lanka on 13 July 2022. Rajapaksa flees the country on 13 July, fails to resign as pledged, and designates Wickremesinghe acting president in his absence. [1] [2] [3] Gotabaya Rajapaksa arrives in Singapore and resigns as President via e-mail on 14 July.
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The Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance (SLPFA), led by Mahinda Rajapaksa, won a large majority in the 2020 Sri Lankan parliamentary election on 5 August 2020. [14] During their tenure, the government under President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa faced multiple crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic and an economic crisis, which culminated into widespread protests ...
12 August 2020 - 18 April 2022 Shehan Semasinghe: 18 April 2022 - 9 May 2022 Nalin Fernando: 9 May 2022 - 24 September 2024 Harini Amarasuriya: National People's Power: 24 September 2024 - 18 November 2024 Ministry of Co-operatives and Internal Trade Wasantha Samarasinghe: 18 November 2024 - Present [3]
In 2022, as protests began growing in Sri Lanka, Jaliya Wickramasuriya, former Sri Lankan ambassador to the United States and Mexico, and a cousin of the Rajapaksa brothers, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for defrauding $332,027 from the Sri Lankan government during the purchase of a new embassy building in 2013.