evidence: Anura Dissanayake has been elected the new president of Sri Lanka. It took a second round of vote counting to determine the winner, after none of the candidates won more than 50 per cent of the vote in the first round. [...] Leftist alliance leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake will be Sri Lanka's new president, after he won an historic election that came two years after the peak of the country's unprecedented economic crisis.