HAVANA, Cuba, Sep 23 (ACN) Miguel Diaz-Canel, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country, congratulated Anura Kumara Dissanayake on his election as president of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.
On X, the president ratified the will to continue strengthening friendship and cooperation ties between the two countries.
Dissanayake, 55, ran as leader of the Marxist-leaning National People's Power (NPP) coalition and defeated opposition leader Sajith Premadasa and 36 other candidates, after receiving 5,740,179 votes.
The Left representative was first elected to parliament in 2000 and held the portfolio of Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation under then President Chandrika Kumaratunga.
He ran for president for the first time in 2019 and lost to Rajapaksa, who was overthrown by the economic crisis two years later.
In his campaign manifesto, the NPP leader offers to create a balanced economy in the country that will enable continuous development and a stable growth rate, so that discrepancies in income distribution can be minimized and benefits distributed fairly.
Diaz-Canel congratulates president-elect of Sri Lanka
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