Sri Lanka sacks parliament, calls for snap vote

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Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena: sacks Parliament, after sacking Prime Minister

Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena on Friday dissolved parliament and called a snap election after failing to gain enough support for his nominee for prime minister, deepening the island’s political crisis with a gamble deemed illegal by the ousted premier’s party.

Sirisena sparked the two week-old drama last month by sacking Ranil Wickremesinghe as prime minister and naming Mahinda Rajapakse — the country’s authoritarian president from 2005 until 2015 — as his replacement.

But Wickremesinghe has refused to back down, and the move to dissolve parliament came hours after Sirisena’s party acknowledged that Rajapakse was eight MPs short of a majority needed to end the power struggle.

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Sirisena signed a decree dismissing the island’s 225-member assembly and scheduled parliamentary elections…



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