President-elect Anura Kumara Dissanayaka took 42.31 percent of the ballots in Saturday's election
Sri Lanka's Marxist president-elect Anura Kumara Dissanayaka hails from a party behind two deadly insurrections, counts Che Guevara among his heroes and will now helm a country limping back from economic ruin.
The 55-year-old labourer's son took 42.31 percent of the ballots in Saturday's election, as voters punished establishment parties for a 2022 economic meltdown and hardships imposed by a stringent IMF bailout.