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Following the electoral defeat, UNP deputy leader Ruwan Wijewardena stated that Wickramasinghe won’t contest the upcoming parliamentary election. [185] However, Wickramasinghe actively campaigned for the parties that supported him during the presidential elections, contesting under the New Democratic Front .
This is a list of presidential international trips made by Ranil Wickremesinghe, who served as the 9th President of Sri Lanka from 21 July 2022 to 23 September 2024. Wickremesinghe, then Prime Minister, meets with Narendra Modi in New Delhi, October 2018.
Professor Maithree Wickremesinghe (Sinhala: මෛත්රී වික්රමසිංහ; born 11 August 1964) is the former First Lady of Sri Lanka as the wife of President Ranil Wickremesinghe. She is a Sri Lankan academic, writer, and professor of English at the University of Kelaniya. [1] She specialises in gender and women's ...
The 2024 Sri Lankan presidential election was the ninth presidential election in the country’s history and was held on 21 September 2024. [3] [4] 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.
The Wickremesinghe cabinet was the central government of Sri Lanka led by President Ranil Wickremesinghe. It was formed in July 2022, following the resignation of Wickremesinghe's predecessor, Gotabaya Rajapaksa. It ended in September 2024 following Wickremesinghe's defeat at the 2024 Sri Lankan presidential election.
The fourth Gotabaya Rajapaksa cabinet, also known as the Rajapaksa-Wickremesinghe cabinet, was the central government of Sri Lanka led by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.It was formed in May 2022 following the appointment of Ranil Wickremesinghe as the new Prime Minister [1] and ended in July 2022 following Rajapaksa's resignation.
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter In 2009, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki stood before lawmakers and experts at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., and proclaimed , “Today, Iraq has become a peaceful, democratic country that relies on its democratic institutions.”
From 8 January to September 2015 Wajira Abeywardana assisted the Government as a Special Representative of the Hon. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. He entered the Parliament again in 2015 after securing 142,874 preferential votes and obtained the highest number of votes (285,000) in Galle District in the History.