How to Pronounce Ranil Wickremesinghe
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Mar 24, 1949 75 years old
Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
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About Ranil Wickremesinghe
- Ranil Wickremesinghe MP (Sinhala: ????? ???????????, Tamil: ????? ?????????????; born 24 March 1949) is a Sri Lankan politician who has served as Leader of the United National Party since 12 November 1994.
- He was first elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Biyagama in 1977 and had served as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka on three occasions.Wickremesinghe also previously served as Prime Minister from 1993 to 1994 and 2001 to 2004.
- He was appointed party leader in November 1994 following the assassination of Gamini Dissanayake during the campaign for the 1994 presidential election.
- On 8 January 2015, Wickremesinghe was appointed as prime minister by President Maithripala Sirisena, who had defeated President Mahinda Rajapaksa in the 2015 presidential election.Wickremesinghe's coalition alliance, the United National Front for Good Governance, won the 2015 parliamentary election with 106 seats.
- Although it fell short of an outright majority, Wickremesinghe was re-elected as Prime Minister with over 35 Sri Lanka Freedom Party members joining his cabinet.
- Wickremesinghe was removed as Prime Minister on 26 October 2018 by President Maithripala Sirisena with the appointment of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa as the Prime Minister, which Wickremesinghe has claimed unconstitutional and refused to accept, resulting in a constitutional crisis.
- The constitutional crisis ended with Sirisena re-appointing Wickremesinghe as Prime Minister on 16 December 2018.
- He resigned from his post as Prime Minister on 20 November 2019, following the Presidential elections on 16 November 2019.
