Sri Lanka elections: What are voters anticipating?

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The Hindu

On September 21, Sri Lanka will vote for its new President. What units this election aside from earlier ones is that it’s the primary because the nation went via its worst economic crisis two years ago.

The Janatha Argalaya, or the individuals’s wrestle, held the Rajapaksa household accountable, and the mass motion booted out the then President, Gotabaya Rajapaksa. 

After Gotabaya fled the nation and give up workplace, Ranil Wickremesinghe, a well-recognized face in Sri Lankan politics for many years, took his place via a parliamentary vote that he received with the help of the Rajapaksas’ occasion, which nonetheless holds a majority within the legislature.

Now, with the Rajapaksas out of focus on this election, the competition is primarily a three-cornered race, between Wickrememsinghe, Sajith Premadasa and Anura Kumara Dissanayake.

Defined | A crucial election in Sri Lanka

Reporting and visuals: Meera Srinivasan

Voiceover and manufacturing: Kanishkaa Balachandran