(ANSA) - ROMA, 13 NOV - epa11717879 Sri Lankan polling
officers, accompanied by police officers, load election
materials onto a bus on the way to their polling stations on the
eve of the parliamentary elections in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 13
November 2024. Sri Lanka's President Anura Kumara Dissanayake
dissolved parliament on 24 September, after securing victory in
the first presidential election since the mass protests and
political turmoil triggered by the country's 2022 economic
collapse.