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Leftist Sri Lanka leader stuck with painful IMF deal: analysts
Leftist Sri Lanka leader stuck with painful IMF deal: analysts

Sri Lanka's new leftist leader has little room to renegotiate an IMF bailout that threw a lifeline to his bankrupt country but imposed punishing and unpopular austerity measures, analysts say. - 'Best interest of the country' - Dissanayake's predecessor, Ranil Wickremesinghe, was voted out of office after doubling income taxes and imposing other reviled austerity measures.