Category: Local News

Steps should be taken to ensure that 2/3rds of the members in Parliament give their approval for a dissolution of Parliament and the immediate holding  of a General Election, so that a new Cabinet can be formed, as a new President has been elected by the public, Minister Rajitha Senaratne had stated at the United National Party (UNP) MPs’ meeting yesterday (18).

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi telephoned Sri Lanka’s President-elect Gotabaya Rajapaksa to congratulate him on his electoral victory.

P. B. Jayasundera has been appointed as the Presidential Secretary to the newly-elected President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.

Minister Rishad Bathiudeen, leader of the All Ceylon Makkal Congress has congratulated President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on winning the people’s mandate at the Presidential Election 2019.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa says that he will establish a new government that can implement his policies.

President-elect Gotabaya Rajapaksa was sworn in as the 7th Executive President of Sri Lanka at the Maha Maluwa of the Ruwanweliseya in Anuradhapura a short while ago.

Several Ministers including Mangala Samaraweera, Harin Fernando, Ajith P Perara, Malik Samaraweera, Kabir Hashim have announced their resignation from posts.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has extended his congratulations to Gotabaya Rajapaksa on being elected the 7th Executive President of Sri Lanka.

President-elect Gotabaya Rajapaksa will be sworn in as the 7th Executive President of Sri Lanka at the Maha Maluwa of the Ruwanweliseya in Anuradhapura today.

Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa issuing a statement yesterday requested all party activists and supporters to celebrate the presidential election victory of Gotabaya Rajapaksa, peacefully and without causing inconvenience to anyone.

The Elections Commission declared that Gotabaya Rajapaksa has been elected as the President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.

Final result of the Presidential Election 2019 held in Sri Lanka. Gotabaya Rajapaksa is the winning candidate.

Sri Lanka’s ruling party presidential candidate Sajith Premadasa on Sunday accepted defeat in the presidential poll and congratulated his rival former wartime defence chief, Gotabaya Rajapaksa.

Voting period for the Presidential Election 2019, which was carried out at 12,845 polling stations island-wide for the 15,992,096 eligible voters to cast their vote, came to an end a short while ago.

Muslim voters traveling by bus to polling stations in northern Sri Lanka were attacked by gunfire and stones and blocked by burning tires hours before polls opened in presidential elections Saturday, in what a member of the Elections Commission called a coordinated effort to disenfranchise the minority group.

A group of unidentified people had opened fire after pelting stones at two Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) buses which were transporting people from Puttalam to Silawathura at Thanthrimale this morning, police said.