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Sri Lanka’s President Sirisena Dissolves Parliament

A man reads a newspaper at stall carrying the news of the Sri Lanka’s parliament being dissolved, on a main road in Colombo, Sri Lanka November 10, 2018.REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte

By: Radhakrishna N S

Sri Lankan president Maithripala Sirisena dissolved parliament on Friday (9) night and called a general election for January 5 in a move that will likely deepen the country’s political crisis. The dissolution, which is expected to be challenged in court, was revealed in an official gazette notification signed by Sirisena which also set the next sitting of parliament for January 17. The move comes after an intense power struggle in the past two weeks which followed Sirisena’s sudden sacking of prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and the appointment of former leader Mahinda Rajapaksa, a pro-China strongman, in his place. Following the…

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