For the first time, Sri Lanka Parliament will directly elect a President on Wednesday from among three candidates left in the race. The fight for the President’s post has now boiled down to Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe, a rebel from Rajapaksa’s Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP)
Although analysts here believe that 73-year-old Wickremesinghe is in the lead, the evidence of numbers in the 225-assembly don’t necessarily suggest it would be plain sailing.
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