Wickremesinghe, who has just been elected by the Sri Lanka National Assembly as president, used to work 6 terms of the Prime Minister, but all broke the burden in the middle of the road.

With an overwhelming number of votes, Ranil Wickremesinghe, 73, today, was chosen by the Sri Lanka National Assembly as the next president, replacing Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who recently ran abroad and announced his resignation.

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Observers think that Wickremesinghe is a rare case on Sri Lanka politics for about half a century.

The special thing in Wickremesinghe's political career is that he has never fully fulfilled a prime minister.

His highway was often interrupted by security, political and economic crises that made the Sri Lanka leadership chaotic.

Mr. Ranil Wickremesinghe in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on 12/5.

The macroeconomic operational capacity is considered the strength of Wickremesinghe, shown in 6 unfinished Prime Ministers.

Originally a lawyer, Wickremesinghe was first appointed to the prime minister's chair in 1993, after President Rannasinghe Premadasa was killed in a suicide bombing of separate rebel.

But his term ended after only one year, when the ruling national solidarity (UNP) failed in the National Assembly election in August 1994.

In the 2001 National Assembly election, Wickremesinghe's Party won, helping him to form the Government and take office of Sri Lanka's 17th Prime Minister, while President Chandrika Kumaratunga was a opposition party member.

During this second prime minister, Wickremesinghe was considered by observers to play an important role in bringing the country from economic recession and his reform policies tended to Western body.

Although Wickremesinghe resolutely asserted that he was a clean politician, he once confronted corruption and entangled in a profiteering scandal by internal information of Sri Lanka Central Bank (CBSL).

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The relationship between Wickremesinghe and President Kumaratunga became increasingly tense.

Wickremesinghe returned to the Prime Minister's office to take the third term in 2015, in a 100 -day program.

During this period, Wickremesinghe was accused of supporting the Rajapaksa family of former President Mahinda.

Sri Lanka protesters in the Prime Minister's office in Colombo on July 13.

Sri Lanka parliament in this period boiled with investigations accused Rajapaksa family members who commit corrupt and human rights violations.

In October 2018, after the midterm election and failure of the UNP Party in the ruling in the National Assembly, he was asked by the Party members to resign as the Party and the Prime Minister's seat.

The confrontation between Wickremesinghe and Sirisena lasted for nearly two months and was taken to the Supreme Court to arbitrarily arbitrarily, by the president accused of unconstitutional when fired the Prime Minister.

He resigned as Prime Minister in November 2019 amid the disadvantageous public opinion, with the largest reason that the government's intelligence failure in the series of terrorist bombs continued to go to the Easter of that year.

Wickremesinghe also lost the National Assembly deputies Sri Lanka in 2020, but still returned to a successful parliament through the mechanism of allocating seats for political parties, becoming the only representative for UNP in the National Assembly.

By May this year, as President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was surrounded by economic and political crisis, Wickremesinghe once again had the opportunity to fulfill his political ambition.

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When the wave of boiling protests, Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa, the brother of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, accepted to resign to reduce political pressure, pave the way for Wickremesinghe to return to the prime minister's chair to find a way out for the economy,

Less than two months later, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa ran to the Maldives due to the great pressure from the wave of protest.

Mr. Ranil Wickremesinghe at the Prime Minister's Office in Colombo on 24/5.

Although Wickremesinghe received support from the majority of the National Assembly, with the image of a veteran politician capable of driving the country to overcome the crisis and negotiate with international organizations, the new President Sri Lanka is still currently.

The close relationship between him and the Rajapaksa family, as well as decided to accept the Prime Minister in May, caused protesters to think that he was seeking to protect the former allies.

In the last weeks of the Gotabaya Rajapaksa government, the protest also targeted Wickremesinghe.

Observers are concerned that the Sri Lanka political crisis will continue to move in a bad direction, with large -scale protests that can break out in Colombo after Wickremesinghe is elected president.

Wickremesinghe resigned because he was originally political to protect an empty system.

On the night of July 14, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa wrote a resignation in a hotel in Singapore, ending the ruling dynasty at Sri Lanka for two decades.

Former President Rajapaksa flew to Singapore because this is the best choice in the journey to run away from the Sri Lanka crisis, according to experts.