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Sri Lanka president dissolves parliament, calls snap poll

Dissanayake schedules an early election for November 14, nearly a year ahead of schedule

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Sri Lanka’s new leftist president Anura Kumara Dissanayake dissolved parliament on Tuesday and called a snap election as he prepares to renegotiate the bankrupt nation’s unpopular International Monetary Fund bailout programme.

Late Tuesday he dismissed the 225-member legislature in which his once-marginal party had just three seats. According to a notice in the official government gazette, he scheduled an early election for November 14, nearly a year ahead of schedule.

The order to dissolve parliament — whose term was due to end in August — comes into immediate effect.

Despite being a marginal party, the support for the 55-year-old Dissanayake’s JVP surged after a 2022 economic meltdown that immiserated millions of ordinary Sri Lankans and the painful implementation of the IMF rescue plan.

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Earlier Tuesday his office announced the appointment of lawmaker Harini Amarasuriya, 54, as premier with the additional portfolios of justice, education, health, women’s affairs and labour.

A fellow party MP, Vijitha Herath, was made the new foreign minister with additional responsibilities over public security. Dissanayake retained the defence, energy and agricultural portfolios.

Self-avowed Marxist Anura Kumara Dissanayake of the People’s Liberation Front (JVP) was sworn into office on Monday after a landslide win in weekend presidential polls.

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