Maithripala Sirisena
Maithripala Yapa Sirisena is a Sri Lankan politician who served as the seventh president of Sri Lanka from 9 January 2015 to 18 November 2019. Sirisena is Sri Lanka's first president from the North Central Province of the country and does not belong to the traditional Sri Lankan political elite. He served as a member of parliament from Polonnaruwa from 1989 to 2015 and from 2020 to 2024.
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- Born in
- Yagoda
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- Maxim Gorky Literature InstitutePolonnaruwa Rajakeeya Madya Maha Vidyalaya
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1951
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