evidence: Ranil Wickremesinghe sworn in as Sri Lankan president amid unrest [...] Colombo, Sri Lanka – Ranil Wickremesinghe has been sworn in as Sri Lanka’s eighth executive president at a ceremony in the Parliament in the capital, Colombo. [...] On Wednesday, Wickremesinghe was elected president by the members of Sri Lanka’s Parliament. It was a remarkable turn of fortunes for the veteran leader, who lost his seat in the August 2020 parliamentary elections. His United National Party (UNP) secured a single seat through the national list, a system that allocates additional seats for accumulative votes.