New prime minister takes office in Sri Lanka

  21 August 2015    Read: 808
New prime minister takes office in Sri Lanka
Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka`s new prime minister as the island nation`s two major political parties signed an agreement to work together in the new parliament.
His victory in Monday`s election thwarted a political comeback bid by the country`s former strongman president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, seven months after he lost his presidential re-election bid.

Wickremsinghe, a lawmaker since 1977, has already served three times as prime minister, a position second to the president in Sri Lanka. He was sworn in on Friday before President Maithripala Sirisena.

Wickremesinghe`s United National Party won 106 seats, seven short of a majority in the 225-member parliament. But the agreement between the UNP and Sirisena`s Sri Lanka Freedom Party will enable Wickremesighe to secure a majority in parliament.

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