“We have won eight districts and the UNP (ruling United National Party) has 11 (out of a total of 22),”
“This means we have lost. It was a difficult fight.”
Mahinda Rajapaksa told
Mahinda Rajapaksa had expressed his hope to return as premier, even as his former ally-turned-nemesis President Maithripala Sirisena vowed he would not make him PM even if his United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) won a majority.
It appears that neither the UNP or the UPFA would gain simple majority of 113 in the 225-member assembly.
In the north's Tamil districts, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) appears to have made a clean sweep.
The official announcement of the results of the parliamentary polls are awaited
Note
The 2015 Sri Lankan Parliamentary Election for 225 seats opened at 07:00 local time and closed at 16:00 on Monday Aug 17,2015, where over 15 million voters were eligible to cast their ballot.196 members will be elected from districts while 29 will be appointed based on the national proportion of votes polled by each party. To have a working majority government, 113 seats are needed in the National Assembly
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