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Sajith Premadasa (Sinhala: සජිත් ප්රේමදාස, Tamil: சஜித் பிரேமதாச; born 12 January 1967) is a Sri Lankan politician. He is the current Leader of the Opposition of Sri Lanka and a Member of Parliament for the Colombo District . [ 1 ]
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.
Sajith Premadasa, the leader of Sri Lanka's main opposition party, is a frontrunner in Saturday's presidential election and a win will hand him the top job more than 30 years after his father was ...
The main opposition alliance, Sajith Premadasa's Samagi Jana Balawegaya, won 40 seats, a decrease from the previous election. Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe 's New Democratic Front secured 5 seats, while former President Mahinda Rajapaksa 's Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna collapsed from 145 seats in the previous election, winning 3 seats.
And his coalition, made up mostly of new political entrants, pulverised candidates from the Samagi Jana Balawegaya party of opposition leader Sajith Premadasa and experienced lawmakers backed by ...
Sajith Premadasa, 57. Sri Lanka's opposition leader and son of former President Ranasinghe Premadasa, he leads the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) that broke with Wickremesinghe's UNP in 2019.
In 2019, Sajith Premadasa, deputy leader of the UNP and son of former president Ranasinghe Premadasa, was the NDF candidate in the 2019 presidential election. Premadasa lost the election to Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa. [14]
Sri Lanka's governing party on Thursday named its charismatic deputy leader, Sajith Premadasa, as its candidate in November's presidential election, ending a long tussle with the party leader ...