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Explained: Key issues, chief contenders, challenges as Sri Lanka braces for polls
Sri Lanka, which is still battling a destabilising economic crisis, will vote for a new president on September 21 in a contest which is expected to be the fiercest the island nation has ever seen in its history. Incumbent Ranil Wickremesinghe, who assumed …