Cash-strapped Sri Lanka’s main Marxist politician took a comfortable lead September 22 in a keenly fought presidential election that has turned into a referendum on an unpopular IMF bailout. Early results from September 21’s vote strongly suggested that 55-year-old Anura Kumara Dissanayaka would become the first leftist commander-in-chief and head of state of the small...
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