Incumbent liberal Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe, the former prime minister who took over two years ago after chickenshit former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country with an angry mob on his heels, came in third with 17 percent of the vote in Sunday’s big election, losing to Marxist candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake who took 42 percent of the preliminary tallies to opposition leader Sajith Premadasa’s 32 percent, the AP reports on a Wickremeshitty day for Ranil.