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    The Prime Minister of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is the head and most senior member of parliament in the cabinet of ministers. It...
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    prime ministers of Sri Lanka since the creation of the position in 1947, prior to the independence of the country (then known as Ceylon). The prime minister...
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    president of Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා ජනාධිපති Śrī Laṃkā Janādhipathi; Tamil: இலங்கை சனாதிபதி Ilankai janātipati) is the head of state and head of government...
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  • Sri Lanka is a unitary multi-party semi-presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Sri Lanka is both head of state and...
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  • Prime Minister's Office is a ministry of the Government of Sri Lanka. It provides the administrative and institutional framework for the exercise of the...
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    members of the Rajapaksa family won seats in the parliament, and the former president Rajapaksa was sworn in as the new prime minister of Sri Lanka. The...
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    The 2022 Sri Lankan protests, commonly known as Aragalaya (Sinhala: අරගලය, lit. 'The Struggle'), were a series of mass protests that began in March 2022...
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    The Minister of Education (Sinhala: අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍ය; Tamil: கல்வி அமைச்சர்) is an appointment in the Cabinet of Sri Lanka. Parties   Sri Lanka Freedom...
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    the ISIL. On 25 April 2019, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe revealed that the government had known of the Sri Lankan nationals who had joined Islamic...
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  • First Cabinet Minister of Food, Co-operatives and Home Affairs in independent Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and the last President of the Senate of Ceylon, former...
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    in Sri Lanka on 5 August 2020 to elect 225 members to Sri Lanka's 16th Parliament. 16,263,885 people were eligible to vote in the election, 31.95% of whom...
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  • National Party   Sri Lanka Freedom Party   Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna   Independent Presidential Secretariat List of prime ministers of Sri Lanka Indirect election...
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  • Thumbnail for 2022 Sri Lankan political crisis
    Sri Lankan political crisis was a political crisis in Sri Lanka due to the power struggle between President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the people of Sri Lanka...
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    The history of Sri Lanka is unique because its relevance and richness extend beyond the areas of South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean. The early...
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  • Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (category Prime Ministers of Sri Lanka)
    President of Sri Lanka from 7 May 1993 to 12 November 1994, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 3 March 1989 to 7 May 1993 and the Governor of North Western...
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    third President of Sri Lanka from 2 January 1989 to his assassination in 1993. Before that, he served as the Prime minister of Sri Lanka from 6 February...
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    Chandrika Kumaratunga (category Children of prime ministers of Sri Lanka)
    and the country's second female prime minister. She was the leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) until the end of 2005. She was elected as president...
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    November 1945) is a Sri Lankan politician. He served as the President of Sri Lanka from 2005 to 2015; the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 2004 to 2005...
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    S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike (category Prime Ministers of Sri Lanka)
    Bell of Asia" (ආසියාවේ රිදී සීනුව), was a Ceylonese statesman who served as the fourth Prime Minister of the Dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), serving...
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    Ranil Wickremesinghe (category Prime Ministers of Sri Lanka)
    a Sri Lankan politician who is the 9th and current President of Sri Lanka. He also holds several ministerial positions, including the Minister of Finance...
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    Dudley Senanayake (category Children of prime ministers of Sri Lanka)
    1973), was a Sri Lankan statesman who served as Prime Minister of Ceylon from 1952 to 1953 (first term as the second prime minister of Ceylon), in 1960...
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    Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (category Prime Ministers of Sri Lanka)
    a Sri Lankan politician who served as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 2000 to 2001 and again from 2005 to 2010, and also served as the Leader of the...
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    The Minister of Foreign Affairs is an appointment in the Cabinet of Sri Lanka who is responsible for overseeing the international diplomacy of the Government...
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  • in Sri Lanka sometime between September and October 2024, according to the Constitution of Sri Lanka. Voters will elect a president for a term of five...
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    Dinesh Gunawardena (category Prime Ministers of Sri Lanka)
    1949) is a Sri Lankan politician serving as the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka since 22 July 2022. He also holds the positions of Minister of Public Administration...
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    itself and Senanayake became the first Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. In 1949, with the concurrence of the leaders of the Ceylon Tamils, the UNP government...
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    began in Sri Lanka when President Maithripala Sirisena appointed former president and member of parliament Mahinda Rajapaksa as Prime Minister on 26 October...
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    in Sri Lanka were granted citizenship, but by this time they only made up 5% of the island's population.[citation needed] In 1956 Prime Minister S. W...
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    Sirimavo Bandaranaike (category Prime Ministers of Sri Lanka)
    was a Sri Lankan politician. She was the world's first female prime minister when she became Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (then the Dominion of Ceylon)...
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    the Cabinet of Sri Lanka. The post was created in 1947 when Ceylon gained independence as Sri Lanka. The position of Treasurer of Ceylon of the British...
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