Sri Lanka's 225-member parliament gave 134 votes to Wickremesinghe, making him the clear winner of the presidential vote. - AP
COLOMBO (Reuters): Sri Lankan lawmakers voted acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe as the new president on Wednesday, hoping he would pull the country out of a crippling economic and political crisis.
"Ranil Wickremesinghe has been elected as the eighth executive president under the constitution," the secretary general of parliament said after counting finished.
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