COLOMBO -- Leftist antiestablishment lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake won Saturday's presidential election in Sri Lanka, shocking a political elite that has dominated power in the South Asian nation for nearly eight decades.
"This achievement is not the result of any single person's work, but the collective efforts of thousands of you," he said, on the verge of becoming the ninth executive president of Sri Lanka. Dissanayake is to be sworn in as president on Monday at a ceremony in Colombo, the commercial capital.
