Speaking at his final rally before Sri Lanka’s presidential election last week, Anura Kumara Dissanayake promised to lead the country’s “first-ever uprising of people to form their own government through the ballot”.
Dissanayake’s subsequent victory over candidates from Sri Lanka’s two long-ruling political camps has put the left-wing populist — who has cited Marx, Lenin and Engels as his top heroes — at the pinnacle of the island’s politics.
Sri Lanka’s establishment and…
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