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Left-leaning leader wins Sri Lanka election in political paradigm shift
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Left-leaning politician Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won Sri Lanka’s presidential election after a historic second round of counting.
No candidate won more than 50% of the total votes in the first round, where Dissanayake got 42.31% while his closest rival, opposition leader Sajith Premadasa, got 32.76%.
But Dissanayake, who promised voters good governance and tough anti-corruption measures, emerged as winner after the second count, which tallied voters' second and third choice candidates.
The election on Saturday was the first to be held since mass protests unseated the country's leader, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, in 2022 after Sri Lanka suffered its worst economic crisis.
The 55 year old Dissanayake, told Sri Lankans that the victory belongs to all of them.
Incumbent president Ranil Wickremesinghe was eliminated from the second count, having won 17% of the vote in the first round, putting him in third place in the polling.

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