Sri Lanka's Marxist-leaning president appoints Cabinet after election win
- Sri Lanka's new president, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, appointed a 22-member Cabinet after winning a two-thirds parliamentary majority in last week's election.
- Dissanayake's party, the National People's Power Party, secured 159 of the 225 seats, enabling significant reforms.
- Dissanayake, elected president on September 21, aims to enact a new constitution and comprises mostly first-time lawmakers in his Cabinet.
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Sri Lanka Chairman Anura Kumar Disanaja has been sworn in by Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya as the coalition led by his Marxist National People's Power Party (NPP) has won a convincing victory over the independence movement.
Sri Lanka President says will not mis-use power, will expand freedoms
ECONOMYNEXT – A government of the National People’s Power will not misuse its two thirds mandate to harm Sri Lanka’s citizenry, but will work towards expanding their freedoms and equality, President Anura Dissanayake said after appointing 21 cabinet ministers. The NPP candidates were elected to parliament from the North, South, East and West he said. In the past, politics were done setting the South against the North, and North against the South…
Sri Lanka president keeps finance minister role, reappoints Amarasuriya as prime minister
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake retained the key finance minister portfolio and reappointed Harini Amarasuriya as prime minister on Monday (Nov 18) as the Indian Ocean island nation targets stronger recovery from a draining financial crisis. Dissanayake, whose leftist coalition
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