# Anura Kumara Dissanayake sworn ninth executive president after a preference-count election Date: 2024 ## The fact On 23 September 2024 [Anura Kumara Dissanayake](/people/anura-kumara-dissanayake) was sworn ninth executive president of Sri Lanka before Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya at the Presidential Secretariat, a day after the Election Commission declared him winner on a preference count. [Sajith Premadasa](/people/sajith-premadasa) finished second. Ranil Wickremesinghe was eliminated after the first round. ## Context [Harini Amarasuriya](/people/harini-amarasuriya) is unresolved. Ranil Wickremesinghe is unresolved. Dinesh Gunawardena resigned as prime minister the same morning. 2022 Aragalaya is neighbouring predecessor weather. 21 September poll; 23 September oath. Store the oath as the completing instrument. Keep Anura Kumara Dissanayake sworn ninth executive president after a preference-count election on 2024-09-23 separate from neighbouring 23 September 2024 oath, 24 September finance portfolio, and 26 November 2024 ISB launch. Sri Lanka’s executive president can appoint a prime minister, keep the finance portfolio, and authorise a bond exchange. He does not write IMF Executive Board minutes, a completed 2022 default as this Contribution, or a unique household-austerity coefficient from a primary-surplus target. A 2026 $2.5 million payment claim stays allegation. ## Evidence and sources Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is peaceful transfer: a completed preference-count election and oath after 2022’s extra-parliamentary rupture. ## What is established and what is not Established: A 23 September 2024 Presidential Secretariat oath as president, independently recorded, after a preference-count win. Not established: A unique 2022 shortage coefficient as his Contribution, or a unique turnout integer as size. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. He took the oath. The Chief Justice administered it. Predecessors left.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Anura Kumara Dissanayake sworn ninth executive president after a preference-count election, not a later speech about Anura Kumara Dissanayake sworn ninth executive president after a preference-count election. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Anura Kumara Dissanayake sworn ninth executive president after a preference-count election on 2024-09-23 is not a licence to treat every later Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Anura Kumara Dissanayake sworn ninth executive president after a preference-count election into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to The Election Commission declared him. He took the oath. The Chief Justice administered it. Predecessors left. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Anura Kumara Dissanayake: https://factrail.ai/people/anura-kumara-dissanayake ## Drivers - Dissanayake NPP IMF presidency (Sri Lanka): https://factrail.ai/drivers/dissanayake-npp-imf-presidency - Capacity for Peaceful Transfer of Power: https://factrail.ai/drivers/capacity-for-peaceful-transfer-of-power ## Sources - https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/sri-lankan-prime-minister-resigns-after-dissanayakes-presidential-win-2024-09-23/ - http://www.mfa.gov.lk/en/swearing-in-of-the-9-th-executive-president-of-sri-lanka ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/sl-akd-president-2024