From bullets to ballots: Sri Lanka's comrade president-elect
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COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's Marxist president-elect Anura Kumara Dissanayaka hails from a party behind two deadly insurrections, counts Che Guevara among his heroes and will now helm a country limping back from economic ruin. The 55-year-old labourer's son took 42.31 per cent of the ballots in Saturday’s (Sep 22) election, as voters punished establishment parties for a 2022 economic meltdown and hardships imposed by a stringent IMF bailout. The financial crash was the worst in Buddhist-majority Sri
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