Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as President of Sri Lanka at the Sri Lankan Parliament in Colombo on July 21, 2022. (Photo: Reuters)

Official sources say the 73-year-old politician is expected to form a cabinet of up to 30 ministers to steer the country through the current economic crisis.

Official results showed Wickremesinghe earned 134 votes in the 225-member parliament. He has been on the post of Prime Minister 6 times. Now as a President he will need to lead the island nation out of the worst political, economic, and humanitarian crisis since its independence in 1948.