The brand new Sri Lanka President Anura Kumara Dissanayake He has outlined the broad outlines of his authorities’s new international coverage, saying he doesn’t need to be caught between India and China.
In an interview with The Monocle, Dissanayake stated: “We don’t need to be trapped, particularly between China and India. Each international locations are valued associates and underneath an NPP authorities, we hope they may grow to be shut companions.”
“We additionally need to keep relations with the EU, the Center East and Africa,” Dissanayake stated in his interview with The Monocle on September 3.
Dissanayake, chief of the broader Nationwide Individuals’s Energy (NPP) entrance of the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna social gathering, defeated his closest rival, Sajith Premadasa of Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB), in Sri Lanka’s parliamentary elections.
The election was the primary since mass protests ousted Gotabaya Rajapaksa in 2022 after the nation suffered an financial disaster.
Dissanayake gained the election with 5.74 million votes and 105,264 preferences. Premadasa obtained 4.53 million votes and 167,867 preferences.
In his interview, Dissanayake additionally added that one of many priorities of his authorities can be to save lots of the nation from the financial disaster.
“Each the principle opposition and the ruling social gathering comply with the identical neoliberal financial mannequin. At this time, sadly, we’re a bankrupt nation. Now we have an exterior debt of 34 billion euros, poverty has elevated and the value of primary merchandise has skyrocketed. Our precedence is to save lots of the nation from this financial disaster,” he stated.
