DECRYPTION – Elected president, the left-wing candidate, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, wants to amend the austerity plan imposed with the approval of the Fund.
HAS New Delhi
Ballots were being counted Sunday afternoon, but the result was in little doubt. Anura Kumara Dissanayake, 55, came out on top in Sri Lanka’s presidential election on Saturday. With 42 percent of the vote, he was 10 points ahead of opposition leader Sajith Premadasa. Dissanayake’s victory came not only from his far-left nationalist party, the JVP, but also from the National People’s Power (NPP), an alliance of 21 civil society groups and trade unions, for which he was the candidate.
The NPP won by taking up the demands made by the popular revolution of 2022. This mobilization from civil society had overthrown President Rajapaksa accused of nepotism and corruption. The NPP presents itself as an organization ” incorruptible, with a transparent political culture “He promises a new constitution subject to referendum which will abolish the presidential system to re-establish…
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