COLOMBO — Sri Lanka's first presidential elections will be held in September since an unprecedented economic crisis spurred widespread unrest, the election commission said Friday.

The election will be the first test of the public mood since the height of the 2022 downturn, which caused months of food, fuel and medicine shortages across the island nation.

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