Ranil Wickremesinghe (Sinhala: රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ; Tamil: ரணில் விக்கிரமசிங்க; born 24 March 1949) is a Sri Lankan politician who served as the ninth President...

country’s history and was held on 21 September 2024. Incumbent President Ranil Wickremesinghe ran for re-election as an independent candidate, making him the first...

Maithree Wickremesinghe (Sinhala: මෛත්‍රී වික්‍රමසිංහ; born 11 August 1964) is the former First Lady of Sri Lanka as the wife of President Ranil Wickremesinghe...

UNP Ranil Wickremesinghe. Wickremesinghe was born to Cyril Leonard Wickremesinghe, CMG of the Ceylon Civil Service and Esmie Moonemalle Wickremesinghe (née...

younger brothers – Ranil Wickremesinghe, Niraj Wickremesinghe, Channa Wickremesinghe and one younger sister, Kshanika Wickremesinghe. His uncle Lakshman...

Parliament on 19 July in advance of the election the following day. Ranil Wickremesinghe won the election with 134 votes and was elected as the ninth President...

presidential election. 6 September – Prime Minister and the leader of UNP Ranil Wickremesinghe reportedly expresses his intentions to be the presidential candidate...

Maithripala Sirisena, dismissing incumbent prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. Wickremesinghe refused to accept the dismissal stating that it was unconstitutional...

The Wickremesinghe cabinet was the central government of Sri Lanka led by President Ranil Wickremesinghe. It was formed in July 2022, following the resignation...

Freedom Alliance withdrew from the unity government. The incumbent, Ranil Wickremesinghe, refused to accept his dismissal, stating that it was unconstitutional...

again from 2022 to 2024. The UNP has been led by former President Ranil Wickremesinghe since 1994. The UNP is a member of the International Democracy Union...

amendment, re-instate the seventeenth amendment and appoint UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe as prime minister. He later was reported to have publicly disavowed...

Gotabaya Rajapaksa resigned amidst the ongoing economic crisis and Ranil Wickremesinghe was elected as his successor. In 2024, Gunawardena resigned. Gunawardena...

The power struggle between the president and UNP prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe led to the 2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis. In the aftermath...

referring to the rebel LTTE's terrorism. In 2016, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as the leader of the United National Party apologized for the burning...

The inauguration of Ranil Wickremesinghe as the 8th executive president of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka took place on Thursday, 21 July...

protesters seized his home and office, and appointed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as acting president while he is overseas. Marian, Teena (14 July...

10 April 1986. He is the son of Mahinda Rajapaksa and Shiranthi (née Wickremesinghe). He has two younger brothers – Yoshitha and Rohitha. His paternal grandfather...

the United National Front led to Sirisena appointing UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe as his prime minister, the day Sirisena was elected president. On...

Congress (1) and Eelam People's Democratic Party (1). Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, leader of the UNFGG and UNP, was able to form a national government...

Lankan politician and currently the Senior advisor to president Ranil Wickremesinghe on Climate change. He was the former State Minister of Defence and...

quickly emerged as the candidate for the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and Ranil Wickremesinghe for the United National Party. Both candidates tried to round up...

the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. On 20 November, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had agreed to resign for Rajapaksa to form a caretaker government...

negotiations remains unclear." Dissanayake was highly critical of the Wickremesinghe government and the International Monetary Fund, claiming that the IMF...

made by Ranil Wickremesinghe, who served as the 9th President of Sri Lanka from 21 July 2022 to 23 September 2024. During his term in office, Ranil Wickremesinghe...

2 April 2004. The ruling United National Party of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was defeated, winning only eighty two seats in the 225-member Sri...

being postponed again several times by the government of President Ranil Wickremesinghe. Currently, there is no official date scheduled for the elections...

prime ministers have gone on to become president of the country. Ranil Wickremesinghe has been sworn in as prime minister the most times in the country's...

Lankan PM Ranil Wickremesinghe takes over as acting president: Report". Hindustan Times News. 13 July 2022. Retrieved 13 July 2022. "Ranil takes oaths...

Minister of Irrigation by President Ranil Wickremesinghe. His removal came after Ranasinghe accused Ranil Wickremesinghe of attempting to frame him when he...