After months of indefinite postponement, presidential and parliamentary elections will finally be held over the next two years.
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An expert on Sri Lanka’s economy identifies and explains three key challenges that Ranil Wickremesinghe will have to overcome if he hopes to steer the country out of its crisis.
Protests over shortages forced the ouster of Sri Lanka’s president, but the crisis has deep-set roots in ethnonationalism, which has encouraged corruption, argues an expert on the country’s politics.
Protestors are occupying the presidential palace and Sri Lankans are suffering shortages of food, petrol and other supplies. The country is in chaos- and it isn’t just because of the economy.
