//php if(!empty($last_str)){if(!preg_match('~[0-9]+~', $first_str)){echo $title;}else{echo $last_str; }}else{echo $title;}?>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.