Sri Lanka presidential candidates submit election nominations


Commuters ride past posters of Sri Lanka's President Ranil Wickremesinghe, ahead of the country's presidential elections in Colombo on Aug 14, 2024. - AFP

COLOMBO: Thirty-nine candidates for Sri Lanka's presidential election submitted nominations on Thursday (Aug 15) as the Indian Ocean island nation prepares for a Sept 21 vote key to charting its path out of a gruelling financial crisis.

The election will be Sri Lanka's first major poll since it ran out of foreign reserves, sending its economy into freefall and forcing it to default on its foreign debt in 2022.

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