(18 Sep 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Colombo, Sri Lanka – 18 September 2024
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Fireworks in the sky
2. Various of Presidential candidate Sajith Premadasa’s posters
3. Various of his supporters dancing to music
4. Various of posters
5. Green colored balloons being released
6. Sajith Premadasa waving towards his supporters from stage
7. Fireworks
8. Premadasa waving
9. Premadasa on stage with other leaders
10. Premadasa’s poster
11. Premadasa on stage with other leaders
12. Premadasa being garlanded with flowers
13. Supporters dancing
14. Premadasa speaking
15. Cutaway of crowd
16. Various of party leaders on stage
17. Various of supporters dancing flashing lights from their mobile phones
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Colombo, Sri Lanka – 18 September 2024
17. Various of non resident Sri Lankans supporting Presidential candidate Anura kumara Dissanayake assembling near a market to campaign for him
18. Dissanayake supporters walking away carrying leaflets for distribution
19. Various of supporters talking to voters
20. Women supporters showing Dissanayake’s posters to the camera
STORYLINE:
Campaigning for the Presidential elections came to an end on Wednesday as Sri Lanka prepares to vote for a new president on Saturday.
Candidates of the main parties attended campaign rallies till late in the evening.
Sri Lanka went through a huge financial crisis with its economy collapsing in 2022.
Sri Lanka’s opposition leader Sajith Premadasa says if he wins he will renegotiate the International Monetary Fund economic reforms package to ensure that rich residents pay more taxes and poor ones see their conditions improve.
The reforms were introduced after Sri Lanka defaulted on its foreign debt, plunging into an economic crisis.
Premadasa told The Associated Press that his party has already started discussions with the IMF to find ways to ease the tax burden on the people.
The presidential election on Sept. 21 is seen as a referendum on the reforms initiated by President Ranil Wickremesinghe.
Results of the elections are due on Sunday.
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