Gotabaya Rajapaksa won presidential election in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka’s Election Commission released the final result where Rajapaksa secured victory with 52.25% of the vote. Rajapaksa is to take oath as President of Sri Lanka on 18 November in a ceremony in the central town of Anuradhapura.
Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019
It was the 8th presidential election in Sri Lanka. The election was held on 16 November 2019. The election was held as the incumbent President Maithripala Sirisena’s term of office ends on 9 January 2020.
Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya administered the oath of office to Rajapaksa at the 140 BC Ruwanweli Seya Buddhist temple in the ancient kingdom of Anuradhapura in north-central Sri Lanka.
