evidence: The Presidential elections are scheduled to be held in Sri Lanka any time between September 17 and October 16, 2024, according to the Constitution of Sri Lanka. Voters will elect a president for a term of five years. As per www. Daily mirror 8.4.2024, the incumbent President Ranil Wickremesinghe is eligible to run for re-election. [...] As per the Presidential Act, no 15 of 1981, the President of Sri Lanka is elected via limited ranked voting. Voters can express up to three preferences for President. If no candidate receives over 50% of valid votes on the first count, all candidates except for the two candidates receiving the highest number of votes are eliminated. The second and third preferences of the eliminated candidates are distributed until one of the remaining two candidates receives an outright majority. [...] The last direct presidential elections held in Sri Lanka were in 2019, where SLPP candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa won the election in a landslide victory, defeating his main opponent Sajith Premadasa. Rajapaksa had to eventually resign on July 14, 2022 amidst the 2022 protests. (Lanka News - News first. 15 July 2022.) This triggered an indirect presidential election via Parliament a week later, to elect a successor according to Article 40 of the Constitution. Then-incumbent Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, who was appointed by Rajapaksa just two months earlier, received the most votes and was sworn in as the 9th President of Sri Lanka on July 21, 2022.