Ranil Wickremesinghe

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human politician

Ranil Wickremesinghe is a veteran Sri Lankan politician who has served multiple terms as Prime Minister and later as President of Sri Lanka.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	human ⓘ politician ⓘ
appointedBy	Chandrika Kumaratunga NERFINISHED ⓘ D. B. Wijetunga NERFINISHED ⓘ Gotabaya Rajapaksa NERFINISHED ⓘ Maithripala Sirisena NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Sri Lanka NERFINISHED ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1949-03-24 ⓘ
educatedAt	Royal College, Colombo NERFINISHED ⓘ Sri Lanka Law College NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Ceylon NERFINISHED ⓘ
familyName	Wickremesinghe NERFINISHED ⓘ
firstElectedToParliament	1977 GENERATED ⓘ
fullName	Ranil Shriyan Wickremesinghe NERFINISHED ⓘ
givenName	Ranil NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasNoChildren	true ⓘ
languageSpoken	English ⓘ Sinhala ⓘ
memberOfPoliticalParty	United National Party NERFINISHED ⓘ
nationality	Sri Lankan NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableFor	becoming President of Sri Lanka during the 2022 political and economic crisis ⓘ serving multiple non-consecutive terms as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka ⓘ
officeAssumed	President of Sri Lanka, 2022-07-21 ⓘ Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, 1993 ⓘ Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, 2001 ⓘ Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, 2015 ⓘ Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, 2018 ⓘ Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, 2022-05-12 ⓘ
parliamentaryConstituencyRepresented	Colombo District NERFINISHED ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Ceylon NERFINISHED ⓘ Colombo NERFINISHED ⓘ
positionHeld	Leader of the Opposition of Sri Lanka ⓘ Leader of the United National Party ⓘ Minister of Education of Sri Lanka ⓘ Minister of Youth Affairs and Employment of Sri Lanka NERFINISHED ⓘ President of Sri Lanka NERFINISHED ⓘ Prime Minister of Sri Lanka ⓘ
precededBy	D. M. Jayaratne as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (2015) NERFINISHED ⓘ Gotabaya Rajapaksa as President of Sri Lanka ⓘ Mahinda Rajapaksa as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (2022) NERFINISHED ⓘ Ratnasiri Wickremanayake as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (2001) ⓘ Sirimavo Bandaranaike as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (1993) NERFINISHED ⓘ
profession	attorney-at-law ⓘ lawyer ⓘ
religion	Buddhism ⓘ
spouse	Maithree Wickremesinghe NERFINISHED ⓘ
succeededBy	Chandrika Kumaratunga as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (1994) NERFINISHED ⓘ Mahinda Rajapaksa as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (2004) NERFINISHED ⓘ Mahinda Rajapaksa as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (2018) NERFINISHED ⓘ Mahinda Rajapaksa as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (2019) NERFINISHED ⓘ

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

United National Party → hasNotableLeader → Ranil Wickremesinghe ⓘ

United National Party → hasPrimeMinisterProduced → Ranil Wickremesinghe ⓘ

United National Party → hasPresidentProduced → Ranil Wickremesinghe ⓘ

Chandrika Kumaratunga (as Prime Minister in 1994) → primeMinisterDuringPresidency → Ranil Wickremesinghe ⓘ

subject surface form: Chandrika Kumaratunga

Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (as Prime Minister in 2000) → succeededBy → Ranil Wickremesinghe ⓘ

subject surface form: Ratnasiri Wickremanayake