Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn-in as ninth executive president of Sri Lanka at a ceremony at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo this morning (23).
He took his oaths before chief justice Jayantha Jayasuriya.
The new president, in his inauguration speech, said he would be committed to the maximum to safeguarding democracy.
Dissanayake also said that he was not a magician, but an average citizen, who knows things and also there are things unknown to him.
My objective is to take better decisions by using what I know and gathering what I don’t know, he said.
