In Sri Lanka, Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in as president today, becoming the country’s first leftist leader. He won Saturday’s election after campaigning to renegotiate a deeply unpopular IMF bailout signed during Sri Lanka’s worst economic crisis. Dissanayake is a Marxist and former student leader who has vowed to fight corruption and anti-austerity measures.

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake: “We have a deep understanding that we have got a challenging country. Our politics must be cleaner than this. There is a need for a political culture that people expect. We will commit ourselves to that. The public have a very negative view of politicians and politics.”