Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe and candidate Namal Rajapaksa voted in the 2024 presidential election, crucial for the nation's future. The critical vote follows the 2022 economic crisis, with 38 candidates running,

Sri Lankans are set to cast their votes on Saturday to elect the 10th president of the South Asian nation, marking the first election since the economic crisis.

Sri Lankans are voting for a new president in the first election since mass protests sparked by the country's worst-ever economic crisis unseated the leader in 2022. Saturday's vote is widely regarded as a referendum on economic reforms meant to put the country on the road to recovery.

Sajith Premadasa, the leader of Sri Lanka's main opposition party, is a frontrunner in Saturday's presidential election and a win will hand him the top job more than 30 years after his father was assassinated while holding the same post.

THE voter turnout in the Sri Lanka presidential election on Saturday is expected to be 75 per cent,” Director General Elections Saman Sri Ratnayaka declared. Sri Lankans voted to elect a new President in the first elections since the economic meltdown in 2022.

President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Leader of the Opposition Sajith Premadasa of Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) party and Namal Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) party cast their votes

Sri Lankans are voting in a presidential election that will determine the course of the country’s recovery from its worst economic crisis and resulting political upheaval

Voting has ended Saturday in Sri Lanka’s presidential election as the country seeks to recover from the worst economic crisis in its history and the resulting political upheaval. The election, contested by 38 candidates,