Colombo: Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe was on Wednesday elected as Sri Lanka new President by Parliament, following a high-volt [url=https://www.owala-waterbottle.ca]owala canada[/url] age political drama which saw his predecessor Gotabaya Rajapaksa fleeing the country and resigning after a popular uprising against his government for mismanaging the economy. The 73-year-old six-time prime minister secured 134 votes in the 225-member House while his nearest rival and dissident ruling party leader Dullas Alahapperuma got 82. Leftist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake secured just three votes. The new President will have a mandate to serve out the rest of Rajapaksa term, which ends in November 2024. Also ReadSri Lankan crisis: Parliament votes for new [url=https://www.stanleycups.co.uk]stanley uk[/url] president Earlier, the voting by secret ballot took place amidst tight security in the wake of the simmering tensions in the island nation triggered by the unprecedented economic and political crisis. In the crucial election, 223 lawmake [url=https://www.hydrojug.ca]hydrojug tumbler[/url] rs voted while two MPs abstained. Four votes were rejected while 219 were declared valid. This is for the first time in 44 years that Sri Lanka Parliament will directly elect a president. Presidential elections in 1982, 1988, 1994, 1999, 2005, 2010, 2015 and 2019 had elected them by popular vote. The only previous occasion when the presidency became vacant mid-term was in 1993 when president Ranasinghe Premadasa was assassinated. DB Wijetunga was unanimously endorsed by Parliament to run th Tpar Hyderabad: Man kills wife, baby son at Abdullapurmet; absconds
BANGOR, Maine 鈥?The Rev. Frank J. Murray will return to his hometown this summer to serve as pastor of St. Paul the Apostle [url=https://www.owalas.at]owala[/url] Parish, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland announced Saturday.Murray, 67, left the Queen City for Auburn in 2003 after nine years as the pastor of St. Mary Catholic Church on Ohio Street before it, St. John Catholic Church on York Street and parishes in Brewer, Hampden and Winterport merged.During his tenure at St. Marys, Murray helped comp [url=https://www.polenes.com.es]polene espana[/url] lete a merger of Bangors two parish schools in 1999. The parish school on Ohio Street joined St. John Catholi [url=https://www.polenes.com.de]polene handtaschen[/url] c School to form All Saints School. The St. Marys campus houses a preschool and kindergarten through third grade, while pupils in fourth through eighth grades attend the St. John campus on State Street.Murray also led the church through the 1998 ice storm, when classes at the school were canceled for a week and Masses were celebrated in subdued lighting while a generator ran the furnace. He also saw the congregation through tragedy in 1995 when a man committed suicide in the church.A native of Bangor, he is a graduate of the University of Maine. Murray served in the Legislature and was a teacher at John Bapst High School before studying at Catholic University of America. He was ordained in 1981. Before becoming pastor of the Newman Center in Orono in 1987, he was chaplain at Maine Medical Center and associate pastor at Sacred Heart in Portland.During his time in Auburn, Murray has also served as the dioces