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Sri Lanka elects Marxist president (www.npr.org)

submitted 1 month ago by peeonyou@hexbear.net to c/worldnews@lemmygrad.ml

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This was a huge upset to the corrupt Sri Lankan old-guard who never saw it coming. Hopefully he has a plan of action to rid the corrupt bloodsuckers from parliament and begin the hard work of restoring prosperity to the people of Sri Lanka. Power to the people!

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[–] KrasnaiaZvezda@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Although it would be nice if they could do anything, what about congress and/or other parts of the government that can block the president?

I know that if this happened in my country the president would either have to basically sell the country to get even mediocre laws passed, or more likely with the even farther right congress of now, would get impeached in no time, though I don't know how much of this applies to Sri Lanka.

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

It's probably going to be somewhat difficult for him to pull the country leftward except that he won by such a large margin they're saying he basically has a mandate. So we'll see how that works out I guess.