Sri Lanka's parliament just tapped a deeply unpopular president as protests continue
Ranil Wickremesinghe, Sri Lanka's then-prime minister, speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview at the Asia-Pacific Conference of German Business in Hong Kong on November 4, 2016.n a secret ballot on Wednesday, Sri Lanka’s parliament chose six-time Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as the country’s new President.
Protesters blame the Rajapaksa family—a politically powerful dynasty that has wielded great influence in Sri Lanka over the last two decades—for mismanagement and corruption that has plunged Sri Lanka into an economic crisis.
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