The Presidential Candidate of the National Peoples Power (NPP) Party Anura Kumara Dissanayake has been elected as the 09th Executive President of Sri Lanka with 5,740,179 votes(42.3 percent ) from the Presidential election held yesterday (21).He has been declared as the winner after counting of second and third preferential votes received by him and his main rival Samagijanabalawegaya Party(SJB) Leader Sajith Premadasa as the newly elected President didn't receive 50 percent of votes required according to the constitution .The final result of the Presidential election held last Saturday was announced at a ceremony held at the National Elections Commission in Colombo late sunday night.
The newly elected Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake is scheduled to be sworn in before chief justice Jayantha Jayasuriya at a simple ceremony in Presidential secretariat at Galle face,Colombo tomorrow(23) it has been announced.There will be no auspicious times and welcome ceremonies for the newly elected preident the NPP has announced.Earlier NPP leaders requested the public not to light fire crackers and making milk rice at roadsides to celebrate the victory of newly elected Sri Lankan President.
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