Two fierce competitors present a challenging obstacle for Wockremesinghe. One is Anura Kumara Dissanayake, the head of a once-marginal Socialist party tarnished by its violent history.  ,
More than 80 000 people died in the 1970s and 1980s, and the party won less than 4 % of the vote in the previous legislative elections.
But Sri Lanka’s issue has proven an option for the 55-year-old Dissanayaka, who has seen a boom of aid based on his commitment to change the planet’s” corrupt” democratic society.
He claimed he was confident in getting the best work at a polling station.
” After the defeat, there should be no conflicts, no assault”, he said. ” Our nation needs a new democratic society”.
Fellow opposition leader Sajith Premadasa, 57, the son of a former president assassinated in 1993 during the region’s decades-long civil war, is even expected to make a solid showing.
Premadasa and Dissanayaka have both pledged to renegotiate the terms of the IMF save bundle, and both he and Dissanayaka have pledged to do so.