Marxist leader sworn in as president of country with 22M people

Marxist person Anura Kumara Dissanayake officially entered bureau arsenic the president of Sri Lanka connected Monday.

Dissanayake, 55, defeated President Ranil Wickremesinghe, whose enactment was accused of starring the state into an economical crisis. The caller leader's enactment is the People's Liberation Front, a Marxist radical that launched 2 equipped insurrections during the 1970s and 1980s.

"We person profoundly understood that we are going to get a challenging country," Dissanayake said during his swearing-in ceremony. "We don’t judge that a government, a azygous enactment oregon an idiosyncratic would beryllium capable to resoluteness this heavy crisis.

Chinese president Xi Jinping congratulated Dissanayake connected his victory, saying connected Monday that China looks guardant to moving unneurotic "to jointly transportation guardant our accepted friendship." The U.S. and India antecedently congratulated Dissanayake.

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Sri Lanka's caller president Anura Kumara Dissanayake takes oath arsenic president of Sri Lanka successful Colombo, Sri Lanka, connected Sept. 23, 2024.

Located to the southbound of India, galore voters successful the Buddhist majority state of 22 cardinal radical — astir the aforesaid size arsenic West Virginia — accidental they felt disgruntled with the country's governmental civilization arsenic the federation climbs dilatory retired of its economical crisis.

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Reuters reports that ostentation roseate arsenic precocious arsenic 70% aft the 2022 illness owed to a terrible shortage of dollars. Inflation has since cooled, however, and the nation's GDP is expected to turn "for the archetypal clip successful 3 years."

Leader and the statesmanlike campaigner of National People's Power Anura Kumara Dissanayake speaks to supporters during the last nationalist rally up of the predetermination successful Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024.  (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Dissanayake's inauguration is the archetypal modular transportation of powerfulness successful Sri Lanka since 2022, erstwhile rioters forced then-President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to resign and fly the country. Wickremesinghe past replaced him successful the fallout.

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Dissanayake's archetypal large situation volition beryllium to enactment connected his run committedness to easiness austerity measures imposed by his predecessor Wickremesinghe nether a alleviation statement with the International Monetary Fund, which is the nation's largest creditor.

The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report