In Sri Lanka, acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe was elected as the country’s new leader following the ouster of former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in a popular uprising. But his rise to the top job could ignite more anger in a country where he has also been the target of mass protests and is not seen as representing the political change people had demanded.
Wickremesinghe received 134 votes in the 225-member