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Ranil Wickremesingh

July 13, 2022

Sri Lankan prime minister appointed as acting president

Mr Wickremesinghe, who served as the country’s prime minister four times, was in October 2018 fired from the post by Sri Lanka’s seventh president, Maithripala Sirisena.

Yapa Abeywardana and Ranil Wickremesinghe

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