Sri Lanka’s newly appointed President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Tuesday signed the special gazette notification dissolving the Parliament.
Officials gave this information. Parliament will be considered dissolved from Tuesday midnight and elections will be held on November 14. Before the presidential election in Sri Lanka on Saturday, Disanayake had said that he would immediately dissolve the Parliament and order mid-term elections.
Earlier, the last Parliament was constituted in August 2020. It has been dissolved 11 months before the scheduled time.
This move is considered an important effort towards fulfilling his election promise, in which he promised to change the decades-long rule of political families in Sri Lanka. According to a special gazette notification, the dissolution of Parliament will take effect from 12 midnight tonight and new elections will be held on November 14. Sri Lanka’s Parliament was last convened in August 2020.
Although the term of the Parliament was till August 2025, it has been ended 11 months in advance.
Sri Lanka is now slowly recovering from its biggest economic crisis, which hit the South Asian country in 2020. At that time, millions of Sri Lankan citizens protested against the then President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Thousands of protesters stormed the Presidential Palace in Colombo, after which Rajapaksa had to flee the country.
Then Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe took power and restored stability to Sri Lanka’s economy as well as peace to the streets.
Last week, Sri Lanka held its first elections since the economic crisis and millions of people voted for change.
With the support of the people, Anura Kumara Dissanayake was elected President, who ran a vigorous campaign against corruption and made election promises that he would end corruption, end nepotism, strengthen the economy, reduce inflation and carry out major reforms.
“I pledge my devotion to protect and uphold democracy. I am taking over at such a challenging time,” Dissanayake, 55, said during his inaugural address at the President’s Office in Colombo. “Our politics must be cleaned up and the people have demanded a different political culture. I am committed to that change,” he said in his maiden speech.
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