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SRI LANKA

Contenders for top post named ahead of vote

Sri Lanka's acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe, parliamentarian Dullas Alahapperuma for the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna party, and National People's Power coalition leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake were nominated for the post of president in parliament on Tuesday. Members of parliament will meet on Wednesday morning and elect a new president for Sri Lanka. Earlier on Tuesday, opposition leader Sajith Premadasa, who had earlier expressed his desire to contest for the presidency, announced that he would withdraw his presidential nomination.

ESTONIA

Swearing in gets coalition govt started

Members of Estonia's new government coalition of the Reform Party, the conservative Isamaa (Fatherland) Party and the Social Democratic Party were sworn in to parliament on Monday. Appointed earlier by President Alar Karis, the new government will be in office for eight months until March 2023, when the country is scheduled to hold its next parliamentary elections. There are 15 ministers in the new coalition, five from each party. On Friday, Prime Minister Kaja Kallas was granted a mandate by parliament to form the new government coalition.

Xinhua - Agencies