Ranil Wickremesinghe

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Ranil Wickremesinghe

Ranil Wickremesinghe ( Sinhala රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ Ranil Vikramasiṁha , born March 24, 1949 ) is a Sri Lankan politician . From 1984 to 1993, Wickremesinghe held several ministerial offices under Presidents Junius Richard Jayewardene and Ranasinghe Premadasa . He is the party leader of the United National Party (UNP) and was Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 1993 to 1994 (succeeded after the assassination of Premadasa) and from April 2001 to December 2004. From January 9, 2015, he held this office again with an interruption between October 26, 2018 and December 16, 2018 until November 20, 2019.

In his previous tenure, he negotiated a ceasefire in the conflict with the Sri Lankan Tamils in February 2002 , temporarily ending the 20-year civil war . Wickremesinghe is increasingly advocating a more moderate policy towards the Tamils in the north of the country and advocating a federal solution. In the 2005 presidential election, he narrowly lost to Mahinda Rajapaksa after losing to Chandrika Kumaratunga in 1999.

In the election campaign leading up to the presidential election in Sri Lanka in 2015 , the UNP supported the opposition candidate Maithripala Sirisena with Wickremesinghe . One day after his election victory, Wickremesinghe was appointed the new Prime Minister.

On October 26, 2018, he was dismissed by President Maithripala Sirisena , who installed former President Mahinda Rajapaksa ( UPFA ) as his successor. Wickremesinghe called the swearing in of his successor illegal and announced legal action. Rajapaksa did not succeed in gaining a vote of confidence in parliament and President Sirisena's attempt to dissolve parliament and call new elections also failed because it was declared invalid by the constitutional court. Rajapaksa then resigned and Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Prime Minister again on December 16, 2018. After Gotabaya Rajapaksa's election victory in the Sri Lankan presidential election on November 16, 2019 , Wickremesinghe resigned from the post of Prime Minister on November 20, 2019. He was succeeded by Mahinda Rajapaksa on November 21, 2019.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ranil Wickremesinghe: Sri Lanka reinstates ousted prime minister. In: bbc.com . December 16, 2018, accessed December 17, 2018 .
  2. ^ Ranil new Prime Minister. Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka), January 9, 2015, accessed February 6, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Change of power in Sri Lanka: Ex-President Rajapaksa new Prime Minister - President Sirisena deposed Prime Minister Wickremesinghe. In: derstandard.de . October 26, 2018, accessed October 26, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Sri Lanka's exiled Prime Minister Wickremesinghe returns. Deutsche Welle, December 16, 2018, accessed on January 20, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Sri Lanka's parliament expresses distrust of the new prime minister. der Standard, November 14, 2018, accessed January 20, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Sri Lanka's new president picks brother Mahinda Rajapaksa as PM. al Jazeera, November 20, 2019, accessed November 21, 2019 .
  7. ^ Mahinda Rajapaksa sworn in as new Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. Colombo Page, November 21, 2019, accessed November 21, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Wickremesinghe, Ranil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sri Lankan politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1949