9th President of Sri Lanka from July 2022 to September 2024
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He served as Sri Lanka's prime minister six times across three decades before finally reaching the presidency in 2022 — not through an election, but through parliament's vote after his predecessor fled the country during a political crisis. Two years later, voters delivered their verdict: third place with 17%.
Born into a political family on 24 March 1949, Wickremesinghe qualified as a lawyer in 1972 and entered parliament in 1977 with the United National Party, which he has led since 1994. His first turn as prime minister came in 1993 after President Ranasinghe Premadasa's assassination. He lost presidential bids in 1999 and 2005, then returned as prime minister in 2015 under Maithripala Sirisena — a tenure that ended in constitutional crisis when Sirisena sacked him in 2018, a move the Supreme Court reversed. After losing his seat in 2020, he re-entered parliament via the National List in 2021. In…
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A priority for us is the creation of more jobs that will minimise poverty and provide for prosperity for all Sri Lankans.
Ranil Wickremesinghe: No, we are not ruling that out. I'm just going out with the flow, he has not ruled it out. The first prong of the people itself.
It was not clear how many of them were killed by the (Lankan) army or whether the LTTE had moved the people to the war zones which led to the death of some of them.
Interviewer: Prime Minister, it's 6 years, since the war, and there is still no investigation.
Ranil Wickremesinghe: We are putting together the mechanisms of accountability and reconciliation. By me or so, when we had to..
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