Sri Lanka heads for snap polls as Rajapaksa tightens grip
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa won a landslide at November presidential polls and appointed his older brother and former president Mahinda as PM in a move that saw the family consolidate their hold on power. – EPA pic, March 1, 2020.
SRI Lanka’s new president is set to dissolve parliament shortly and call snap a legislative election six months ahead of schedule, a state-run newspaper said today. Gotabaya Rajapaksa is expected to exercise his constitutional power to sack the assembly when it completes four-and-a-half out of its five-year term tonight, the Sunday Observer said.
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