Anura Kumara Dissanayake, popularly known as AKD, of the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), or People's Liberation Front, took his oath as Sri Lanka's new president on Monday.

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This comes a day after the country's election commission announced that the leader of the National People's Power (NPP) alliance had won Saturday's elections — the first since mass protests broke out in 2022 amid economic turmoil.

AKD received 42.3% of the votes, while opposition leader Sajith Premadasa and incumbent Ranil Wickremesinghe secured 32.8% and 17% to finish second and third, respectively. Voter turnout was at about 75% of the 17M eligible voters.

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For the first time ever, the presidential race in Sri Lanka went to an instant-runoff using preferential votes after no candidate secured more than 50% of the votes in the first count.

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Since rising to prominence in the wake of the 2022 protests, the NPP

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