Hoping for change, Sri Lanka has elected its first leftist president, Anura Kumara Dissanayake of the National People's Power party. The results come after an uprising two years ago forced out the long-ruling Rajapaksa family dynasty.
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00:00Sri Lanka has voted out its incumbent president, electing leftist leader Anuradha D'Souza.
00:05The results come two years after a popular uprising forced out Godabaya Rajapaksa, whose
00:10family had dominated Sri Lankan politics for decades, but the country's declining economy
00:15made the interim president unpopular.
00:18By voting in D'Souza, the country hopes to bring about economic change by addressing
00:22widespread poverty.
00:24This is the first time a member of Sri Lanka's National People Power Party has been elected
00:28president.