{"id":66888,"date":"2024-09-22T19:34:43","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T10:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/22\/sri-lanka-presidential-election-runoff-second-round-vote-count"},"modified":"2024-09-23T01:56:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T16:56:22","slug":"sri-lankan-presidential-election-to-be-decided-in-runoff-vote-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66888","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan leftist candidate Dissanayake claims presidential election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Second-round victory viewed as widespread rejection of the old political elite amid economic crisis<\/p>\n<p>The Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won Sri Lanka\u2019s presidential election, in what was viewed as a widespread rejection of the old political elite who are blamed for the country\u2019s ongoing economic woes.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in Sri Lanka\u2019s history, the election went into a runoff on Sunday after no candidate managed to get more than 50% of the votes. However, after second-choice votes were counted, Dissanayake was declared the winner in the evening. \u201cThis victory belongs to all of us,\u201d he said, writing on X.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/22\/sri-lanka-presidential-election-runoff-second-round-vote-count\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second-round victory viewed as widespread rejection of the old political elite amid economic crisisThe Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won Sri Lanka\u2019s presidential election, in what was viewed as a widespread rejection of the old political &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,674,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66888"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66890,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66888\/revisions\/66890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}