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November 15, 2024

Sri Lanka's New President Receives Mandate for Leftist Economic Agenda After Parliamentary Victory
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In Sri Lanka, the leftist coalition of the new President Anura Kumara
Dissanayake has won a landslide victory in snap parliamentary elections.
Sri Lanka's first leftist leader, a self-described Marxist, now has the
legislative backing to enact his campaign agenda, which focused on
renegotiating a deeply unpopular IMF bailout and corruption.