TOPSHOT - Security personnel and an election official stand along with sealed ballot boxes as they carry them to a counting centre at the end of voting in Sri Lanka's presidential election in Colombo on September 21, 2024. Cash-strapped Sri Lanka voted for its next president on September 21 in an effective referendum on an unpopular International Monetary Fund austerity plan enacted after the island nation's unprecedented financial crisis. (Photo by Ishara S.KODIKARA / AFP) (Photo by ISHARA S.KODIKARA/AFP via Getty Images)