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  • 9/15/2024
The island nation of Sri Lanka will head to the polls on September 21 in a presidential election key to decide the future of reforms as the country battles its worst financial crisis in decades.

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00:00The island nation of Sri Lanka will head to the polls on September 21 in a presidential
00:07election key to decide the future of reforms as the country battles its worst financial
00:12crisis in decades.
00:14Frontrunners of the crucial vote include incumbent President Ranil Wickremesinghe, main opposition
00:20leader Sajith Premadasa, and Marxist-leaning parliamentarian Anurag Kumara D'Sanayake.
00:26The presidential poll in the Indian Ocean Nation, grappling with the fallout of its
00:31worst financial crisis in decades, is key to charting Sri Lanka's way out of a crisis
00:37unleashed after exhausting its foreign reserves, sending the economy into freefall and defaulting
00:43on foreign debt in 2022.
00:45Nearly 17 million of Sri Lanka's 22 million population are eligible to cast their ballots.
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