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- Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake wins Sri Lanka’s presidential election, according to official results.
- For the first time in the country’s history, election officials counted the second-preference votes after no candidate secured 50 percent.
- Opposition leader Sajith Premadasa finished second, while incumbent President Ranil Wickremesinghe came a distant third.
- The state of the economy dominated voters’ concerns, with many struggling to make ends meet after the imposition of harsh austerity measures following a $2.9bn International Monetary Fund (IMF) emergency loan.