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    ISAS Briefs

    Quick analytical responses to occurrences in South Asia

    153 : Sri Lanka Polls: Incumbency is Endorsed

    S. D. Muni, Visiting Research Professor at the ISAS

    4 February 2010

    Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa's electoral gamble has paid. His decision to go to polls two years before the end of his first term has won him a comfortable second term of six years.