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    • Polls close in first Sri Lanka election since economic collapse

      Turnout was at nearly 70 percent an hour before polling stations closed at 4:00 pm (1030 GMT), an election commission official said, citing provisional figures.

    • Irrespective of who becomes next Sri Lankan President, India should keep helping Lanka: Opposition leader Sajith Premadasa

      Premadasa's appeal came hours after the government told an all-party meeting in New Delhi that India is naturally worried over the Sri Lankan crisis and ahead of the presidential election in Sri Lanka on Wednesday to pick a successor to ousted president Gotabaya Rajapaksa.

    • Sri Lankan opposition leader Sajith Premadasa withdraws presidential candidacy

      Minutes before nominations formally opened Premadasa tweeted that "for the greater good of my country that I love and the people I cherish" his party will support Dullas Alahapperuma, a former media minister, to replace Gotabaya Rajapaksa who resigned last week.

    • Sri Lanka opposition says it will move no-confidence motion if crisis unaddressed

      Sajith Premadasa, chief of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya party, made the threat in parliament.

    • Premadasa concedes Sri Lanka presidential poll to Rajapaksa

      Premadasa, 52, also stepped down as the Deputy Leader of the United National Party (UNP) with immediate effect.

    • Sri Lanka to elect new president on November 16

      The election will see a close contest between former wartime defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa, 70, and the ruling party candidate Sajith Premadasa, 52. Anura Kumara Dissanayake from the National People's Power (NPP) coalition is also a strong candidate.

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