COLOMBO — Sri Lanka's new leftist president dissolved parliament late on Tuesday and called a snap election as he prepares to renegotiate the bankrupt nation's unpopular International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout program.
Self-avowed Marxist Anura Kumara Dissanayake of the People's Liberation Front, or JVP, was sworn into office on Monday after a landslide win in weekend presidential polls.
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