Sri Lanka’s first leftist president was sworn into office on Monday vowing to restore public faith in politics but said he had no magic solution to the hardships suffered following an unprecedented economic crisis. “I am not a conjuror, I am not a magician, I am a common citizen,” he said after taking his oath in a nationally televised ceremony attended by diplomats, politicians and the military. “I have strengths and limitations, things I know and things I don’t… my responsibility is to be part of a collective effort to end this (economic) crisis.”
