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Sri Lanka votes in first poll since economic collapse
President Ranil Wickremesinghe is fighting an uphill battle for a fresh mandate to continue belt-tightening measures that stabilised the economy and ended months of food, fuel and medicine shortages.
Sri Lankans vote for the country's next president in an effective referendum on an unpopular International Monetary Fund austerity plan. AFP photo
By: NewVision Reporter, Journalists @NewVision
Cash-strapped Sri Lanka was voting for its next president Saturday in an effective referendum on an unpopular International Monetary Fund austerity plan enacted after the island nation's unprecedented