Sept. 22 (UPI) -- Anura Kumara Dissanayake, a Marxist, has won Sri Lanka's presidential election following a historic second ballot count. "This victory belongs to us all," Dissanayake, 55, told Sri Lankans in a message on the X on Sunday. Advertisement Dissanayake got 42.31% of the vote compared with his closest rival, opposition leader Sajith Premadasa, who garnered 32.76%. No candidate won more than 50% of the vote . Dissanayake had won a total of 5,740,179 votes to Premadasa's 4,530,902,

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