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class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.4.2</span> <span>Abolition of term limits</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Abolition_of_term_limits-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-2015_presidential_campaign" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2015_presidential_campaign"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.4.3</span> <span>2015 presidential campaign</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2015_presidential_campaign-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Chinese_interference_and_vote_buying" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Chinese_interference_and_vote_buying"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.4.4</span> <span>Chinese interference and vote buying</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Chinese_interference_and_vote_buying-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li 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vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Prime_Ministerial_candidacy_in_2015"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.2</span> <span>Prime Ministerial candidacy in 2015</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Prime_Ministerial_candidacy_in_2015-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Return_to_legislature" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Return_to_legislature"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.3</span> <span>Return to legislature</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Return_to_legislature-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-2018_local_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2018_local_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.3.1</span> <span>2018 local election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2018_local_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li 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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B4%D8%A7" title="ماهيندا راجاباكشا – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="ماهيندا راجاباكشا" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A6_%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B7" title="মহিন্দ রাজাপক্ষ – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="মহিন্দ রাজাপক্ষ" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%85%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B0_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%81%D1%8D" title="Махінда Раджапаксэ – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Махінда Раджапаксэ" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B0_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0" title="Махинда Раджапакса – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Махинда Раджапакса" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahinda_Rajapaksa" title="Mahinda Rajapaksa – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Mahinda Rajapaksa" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahinda_Rad%C5%BEapaksa" title="Mahinda Radžapaksa – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Mahinda Radžapaksa" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahinda_Rajapaksa" title="Mahinda Rajapaksa – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Mahinda Rajapaksa" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahinda_Rajapaksa" title="Mahinda Rajapaksa – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Mahinda Rajapaksa" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahinda_Rajapaksa" title="Mahinda Rajapaksa – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Mahinda Rajapaksa" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CE%B1%CF%87%CE%AF%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B1_%CE%A1%CE%B1%CE%B3%CE%B9%CE%B1%CF%80%CE%AC%CE%BA%CF%83%CE%B5" title="Μαχίντα Ραγιαπάκσε – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Μαχίντα Ραγιαπάκσε" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahinda_Rajapaksa" title="Mahinda Rajapaksa – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Mahinda Rajapaksa" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahinda_Rajapaksa" title="Mahinda Rajapaksa – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Mahinda Rajapaksa" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahinda_Rajapaksa" title="Mahinda Rajapaksa – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Mahinda Rajapaksa" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%87%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%BE%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%B3%D8%A7" title="ماهیندا راجاپاکسا – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="ماهیندا راجاپاکسا" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahinda_Rajapaksa" title="Mahinda Rajapaksa – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Mahinda Rajapaksa" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahinda_Rajapaksa" title="Mahinda Rajapaksa – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Mahinda Rajapaksa" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%88%ED%9E%8C%EB%8B%A4_%EB%9D%BC%EC%9E%90%ED%8C%8D%EC%82%AC" title="마힌다 라자팍사 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="마힌다 라자팍사" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%84%D5%A1%D5%B0%D5%AB%D5%B6%D5%A4%D5%A1_%D5%8C%D5%A1%D5%BB%D5%A1%D5%BA%D5%A1%D6%84%D5%BD%D5%A1" title="Մահինդա Ռաջապաքսա – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Մահինդա Ռաջապաքսա" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A6_%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B7" title="महिन्द राजपक्ष – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="महिन्द राजपक्ष" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahinda_Rajapaksa" title="Mahinda Rajapaksa – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Mahinda Rajapaksa" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahinda_Rajapaksa" title="Mahinda Rajapaksa – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Mahinda Rajapaksa" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahinda_Rajapaksa" title="Mahinda Rajapaksa – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Mahinda Rajapaksa" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%94%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%94_%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%92%27%D7%A4%D7%A7%D7%A1%D7%94" title="מהינדה ראג'פקסה – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="מהינדה ראג'פקסה" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahinda_Rajapaksa" title="Mahinda Rajapaksa – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="Mahinda Rajapaksa" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Jawa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%AE%E0%B2%B9%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%82%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%BE_%E0%B2%B0%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%9C%E0%B2%AA%E0%B2%95%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%86" title="ಮಹಿಂದಾ ರಾಜಪಕ್ಸೆ – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="ಮಹಿಂದಾ ರಾಜಪಕ್ಸೆ" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ಕನ್ನಡ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pam mw-list-item"><a href="https://pam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahinda_Rajapaksa" title="Mahinda Rajapaksa – Pampanga" lang="pam" hreflang="pam" data-title="Mahinda Rajapaksa" data-language-autonym="Kapampangan" data-language-local-name="Pampanga" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kapampangan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9B%E1%83%90%E1%83%B0%E1%83%98%E1%83%9C%E1%83%93%E1%83%90_%E1%83%A0%E1%83%90%E1%83%AF%E1%83%90%E1%83%9E%E1%83%90%E1%83%A5%E1%83%A1%E1%83%90" title="მაჰინდა რაჯაპაქსა – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="მაჰინდა რაჯაპაქსა" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahendra_R%C4%81japak%E1%B9%A3e" title="Mahendra Rājapakṣe – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Mahendra Rājapakṣe" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahinda_Rajapaksa" title="Mahinda Rajapaksa – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Mahinda Rajapaksa" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahinda_Rajapaksa" title="Mahinda Rajapaksa – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Mahinda Rajapaksa" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahinda_Rajapakse" title="Mahinda Rajapakse – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Mahinda Rajapakse" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%B9%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%A8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A6_%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%9C%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E2%80%8C%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%86" title="മഹിന്ദ രാജപക്‌സെ – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="മഹിന്ദ രാജപക്‌സെ" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A6_%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B7" title="महिंद राजपक्ष – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="महिंद राजपक्ष" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B4%D8%A7" title="ماهيندا راجاباكشا – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="ماهيندا راجاباكشا" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahinda_Rajapaksa" title="Mahinda Rajapaksa – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Mahinda Rajapaksa" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahinda_Rajapaksa" title="Mahinda Rajapaksa – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Mahinda Rajapaksa" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ne mw-list-item"><a href="https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B7%E0%A5%87" title="महिन्दा राजपाक्षे – Nepali" lang="ne" hreflang="ne" data-title="महिन्दा राजपाक्षे" data-language-autonym="नेपाली" data-language-local-name="Nepali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%92%E3%83%B3%E3%83%80%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%91%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B5" title="マヒンダ・ラージャパクサ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="マヒンダ・ラージャパクサ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahinda_Rajapaksa" title="Mahinda Rajapaksa – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Mahinda Rajapaksa" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahinda_Rajapakse" title="Mahinda Rajapakse – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Mahinda Rajapakse" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahinda_Rajapaksa" title="Mahinda Rajapaksa – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Mahinda Rajapaksa" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%AE%E0%A8%B9%E0%A8%BF%E0%A9%B0%E0%A8%A6%E0%A8%BE_%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%9C%E0%A8%AA%E0%A8%95%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%BC%E0%A9%87" title="ਮਹਿੰਦਾ ਰਾਜਪਕਸ਼ੇ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਮਹਿੰਦਾ ਰਾਜਪਕਸ਼ੇ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%81%D9%86%D8%AF_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AC_%D9%BE%DA%A9%D8%B4" title="مہند راج پکش – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="مہند راج پکش" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahinda_Rajapaksa" title="Mahinda Rajapaksa – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Mahinda Rajapaksa" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahinda_Rajapaksa" title="Mahinda Rajapaksa – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Mahinda Rajapaksa" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-qu mw-list-item"><a href="https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahinda_Rajapaksa" title="Mahinda Rajapaksa – Quechua" lang="qu" hreflang="qu" data-title="Mahinda Rajapaksa" data-language-autonym="Runa Simi" data-language-local-name="Quechua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Runa Simi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0,_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B0" title="Раджапакса, Махинда – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Раджапакса, Махинда" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sat mw-list-item"><a href="https://sat.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%B1%A2%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%A6%E1%B1%A4%E1%B1%B1%E1%B1%AB%E1%B1%9F_%E1%B1%A8%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%A1%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%AF%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%A0%E1%B1%A5%E1%B1%9F" title="ᱢᱟᱦᱤᱱᱫᱟ ᱨᱟᱡᱟᱯᱟᱠᱥᱟ – Santali" lang="sat" hreflang="sat" data-title="ᱢᱟᱦᱤᱱᱫᱟ ᱨᱟᱡᱟᱯᱟᱠᱥᱟ" data-language-autonym="ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ" data-language-local-name="Santali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-si mw-list-item"><a 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style="font-size:125%;">Mahinda Rajapaksa</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="font-size:125%; font-weight:bold;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style><span class="nobold"><span title="Sinhala-language text"><span lang="si">මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ</span></span><br /><span title="Tamil-language text"><span lang="ta">மஹிந்த ராஜபக்ஷ</span></span></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:The_former_President_of_Sri_Lanka,_Mr._Mahinda_Rajapaksa_meeting_the_Prime_Minister,_Shri_Narendra_Modi,_in_New_Delhi_on_September_12,_2018_(1)_(cropped).JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img 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//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/The_former_President_of_Sri_Lanka%2C_Mr._Mahinda_Rajapaksa_meeting_the_Prime_Minister%2C_Shri_Narendra_Modi%2C_in_New_Delhi_on_September_12%2C_2018_%281%29_%28cropped%29.JPG/440px-The_former_President_of_Sri_Lanka%2C_Mr._Mahinda_Rajapaksa_meeting_the_Prime_Minister%2C_Shri_Narendra_Modi%2C_in_New_Delhi_on_September_12%2C_2018_%281%29_%28cropped%29.JPG 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="700" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:normal;padding-top:0.2em;">Rajapaksa in 2018</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">6th <a href="/wiki/President_of_Sri_Lanka" title="President of Sri Lanka">President of Sri Lanka</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />19 November 2005 – 9 January 2015</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ratnasiri_Wickremanayake" title="Ratnasiri Wickremanayake">Ratnasiri Wickremanayake</a><br /><a href="/wiki/D._M._Jayaratne" title="D. M. Jayaratne">D. M. Jayaratne</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Chandrika_Kumaratunga" title="Chandrika Kumaratunga">Chandrika Kumaratunga</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Maithripala_Sirisena" title="Maithripala Sirisena">Maithripala Sirisena</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">13th <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Prime Minister of Sri Lanka">Prime Minister of Sri Lanka</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />21 November 2019 – 9 May 2022</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Gotabaya_Rajapaksa" title="Gotabaya Rajapaksa">Gotabaya Rajapaksa</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ranil_Wickremesinghe" title="Ranil Wickremesinghe">Ranil Wickremesinghe</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Ranil Wickremesinghe</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />26 October 2018 – 15 December 2018<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Maithripala_Sirisena" title="Maithripala Sirisena">Maithripala Sirisena</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Ranil Wickremesinghe</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Ranil Wickremesinghe</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />6 April 2004 – 19 November 2005</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data">Chandrika Kumaratunga</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Ranil Wickremesinghe</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Ratnasiri Wickremanayake</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">12th <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Opposition_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Leader of the Opposition (Sri Lanka)">Leader of the Opposition</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />18 December 2018 – 21 November 2019</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data">Maithripala Sirisena</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Ranil Wickremesinghe</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/R._Sampanthan" title="R. Sampanthan">R. Sampanthan</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sajith_Premadasa" title="Sajith Premadasa">Sajith Premadasa</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />6 February 2002 – 2 April 2004</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data">Chandrika Kumaratunga</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Ranil Wickremesinghe</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Ratnasiri Wickremanayake</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Ranil Wickremesinghe </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> <table class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="; ; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2" style="line-height:normal; padding:0.2em; background-color:#eee;"><div style="text-align: center; padding: 0 0.4em; margin: 0 3.3em">Cabinet posts</div></th> </tr><tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Finance_of_Sri_Lanka" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of Finance of Sri Lanka">Minister of Finance of Sri Lanka</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />22 November 2019 – 8 July 2021</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Gotabaya_Rajapaksa" title="Gotabaya Rajapaksa">Gotabaya Rajapaksa</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mangala_Samaraweera" title="Mangala Samaraweera">Mangala Samaraweera</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Basil_Rajapaksa" title="Basil Rajapaksa">Basil Rajapaksa</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />23 November 2005 – 9 January 2015</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data">Himself</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sarath_Amunugama_(politician)" title="Sarath Amunugama (politician)">Sarath Amunugama</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ravi_Karunanayake" title="Ravi Karunanayake">Ravi Karunanayake</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Defence_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Minister of Defence (Sri Lanka)">Minister of Defence and Urban Development</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />19 November 2005 – 8 January 2015</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data">Himself</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Tilak_Marapana" title="Tilak Marapana">Tilak Marapana</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Maithripala_Sirisena" title="Maithripala Sirisena">Maithripala Sirisena</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Highways,_Ports_%26_Shipping" title="Minister of Highways, Ports & Shipping">Minister of Highways, Ports & Shipping</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />23 April 2010 – 8 January 2015</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data">Himself</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mangala_Samaraweera" title="Mangala Samaraweera">Mangala Samaraweera</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Kabir_Hashim" title="Kabir Hashim">Kabir Hashim</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />22 April 2004 – 19 November 2005</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Chandrika_Kumaratunga" title="Chandrika Kumaratunga">Chandrika Kumaratunga</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Jeyaraj_Fernandopulle" title="Jeyaraj Fernandopulle">Jeyaraj Fernandopulle</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mangala_Samaraweera" title="Mangala Samaraweera">Mangala Samaraweera</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Law_and_Order_(Sri_Lanka)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ministry of Law and Order (Sri Lanka)">Minister of Law and Order</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />26 August 2013 – 8 January 2015</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data">Himself</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Office established</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_Amaratunga" title="John Amaratunga">John Amaratunga</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Fisheries_and_Aquatic_Resources_Development" class="mw-redirect" title="Ministry of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development">Ministry of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1997 – 14 September 2001</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Chandrika_Kumaratunga" title="Chandrika Kumaratunga">Chandrika Kumaratunga</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Indika_Gunawardena" title="Indika Gunawardena">Indika Gunawardena</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mahinda_Wijesekara" title="Mahinda Wijesekara">Mahinda Wijesekara</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Labour,_Trade_Union_Relations_and_Sabaragamuwa_Development" class="mw-redirect" title="Ministry of Labour, Trade Union Relations and Sabaragamuwa Development">Minister of Labour and Vocational Training</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />19 August 1994 – 1997</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/D._B._Wijetunga" class="mw-redirect" title="D. B. Wijetunga">D. B. Wijetunga</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Chandrika_Kumaratunga" title="Chandrika Kumaratunga">Chandrika Kumaratunga</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/D._B._Wijetunga" class="mw-redirect" title="D. B. Wijetunga">D. B. Wijetunga</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Alavi_Moulana" title="Alavi Moulana">Alavi Moulana</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> <table class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="; ; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2" style="line-height:normal; padding:0.2em; background-color:#eee;"><div style="text-align: center; padding: 0 0.4em; margin: 0 3.3em">Constituencies</div></th> </tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Member of Parliament (Sri Lanka)">Member of Parliament</a><br />for <a href="/wiki/Kurunegala_Electoral_District" title="Kurunegala Electoral District">Kurunegala</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />17 August 2015 – 24 September 2024</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Member of Parliament (Sri Lanka)">Member of Parliament</a><br />for <a href="/wiki/Hambantota_Electoral_District" title="Hambantota Electoral District">Hambantota</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />15 February 1989 – 19 November 2005</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Constituency established</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Nirupama_Rajapaksa" title="Nirupama Rajapaksa">Nirupama Rajapaksa</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Member of Parliament (Sri Lanka)">Member of Parliament</a><br />for <a href="/wiki/Beliatta_Electoral_District" title="Beliatta Electoral District">Beliatta</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />27 May 1970 – 21 July 1977</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/D.P._Atapattu" class="mw-redirect" title="D.P. Atapattu">D.P. Atapattu</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ranjit_Atapattu" title="Ranjit Atapattu">Ranjit Atapattu</a> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Percy Mahendra Rajapaksa</div><br /><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1945-11-18</span>) </span>18 November 1945<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 79)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Weeraketiya" title="Weeraketiya">Weeraketiya</a>, <a href="/wiki/Southern_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Southern Province, Sri Lanka">Southern Province</a>, <a href="/wiki/British_Ceylon" title="British Ceylon">British Ceylon</a><br />(now Sri Lanka)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Podujana_Peramuna" title="Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna">Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna</a> (after 2018)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Other political<br />affiliations</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Freedom_Party" title="Sri Lanka Freedom Party">Sri Lanka Freedom Party</a> (before 2018)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse(s)</th><td class="infobox-data">Shiranthi Rajapaksa<br />(<i>née</i> Wickremesinghe)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Namal_Rajapaksa" title="Namal Rajapaksa">Namal</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Yoshitha_Rajapaksa" title="Yoshitha Rajapaksa">Yoshitha</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Rohitha_Rajapaksa" title="Rohitha Rajapaksa">Rohitha</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relatives</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ul{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist .mw-empty-li{display:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dt::after{content:": "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li::after{content:" · ";font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist 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li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chamal_Rajapaksa" title="Chamal Rajapaksa">Chamal</a> (brother)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gotabaya_Rajapaksa" title="Gotabaya Rajapaksa">Gotabaya</a> (brother)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basil_Rajapaksa" title="Basil Rajapaksa">Basil</a> (brother)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Residence(s)</th><td class="infobox-data label">Carlton House, Tangalle<br /><a href="/wiki/Medamulana_Walawwa" title="Medamulana Walawwa">Medamulana Walawwa</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Law_College" title="Sri Lanka Law College">Sri Lanka Law College</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Profession</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Attorneys_in_Sri_Lanka" title="Attorneys in Sri Lanka">Attorney</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mahindarajapaksa.lk">Official website</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Mahinda Rajapaksa</b> (<a href="/wiki/Sinhala_language" title="Sinhala language">Sinhala</a>: <span lang="si">මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ</span>; <a href="/wiki/Tamil_language" title="Tamil language">Tamil</a>: <span lang="ta">மஹிந்த ராஜபக்ஷ</span>; born <b>Percy Mahendra Rajapaksa</b>; 18 November 1945) is a Sri Lankan politician. He served as the sixth <a href="/wiki/President_of_Sri_Lanka" title="President of Sri Lanka">President of Sri Lanka</a> from 2005 to 2015; the <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Prime Minister of Sri Lanka">Prime Minister of Sri Lanka</a> from 2004 to 2005, 2018, and 2019 to 2022;<sup id="cite_ref-auto_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Opposition_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Leader of the Opposition (Sri Lanka)">Leader of the Opposition</a> from 2002 to 2004 and 2018 to 2019, and the <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Finance_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Minister of Finance (Sri Lanka)">Minister of Finance</a> from 2005 to 2015 and 2019 to 2021. He has been a Member of Parliament (MP) for <a href="/wiki/Kurunegala_Electoral_District" title="Kurunegala Electoral District">Kurunegala</a> since <a href="/wiki/2015_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election" title="2015 Sri Lankan parliamentary election">2015</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rajapaksa is a lawyer by profession and was first elected to the <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Parliament of Sri Lanka">Parliament of Sri Lanka</a> in 1970. He served as the <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Sri_Lanka_Freedom_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party">leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party</a> from <a href="/wiki/2005_Sri_Lankan_presidential_election" title="2005 Sri Lankan presidential election">2005</a> to <a href="/wiki/2015_Sri_Lankan_presidential_election" title="2015 Sri Lankan presidential election">2015</a>. Rajapaksa was sworn in for his first six-year term as president on 19 November 2005. He was subsequently <a href="/wiki/2010_Sri_Lankan_presidential_election" title="2010 Sri Lankan presidential election">re-elected in 2010</a> for a second term.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rajapaksa was defeated in his bid for a third term in the <a href="/wiki/2015_Sri_Lankan_presidential_election" title="2015 Sri Lankan presidential election">2015 presidential election</a> by <a href="/wiki/Maithripala_Sirisena" title="Maithripala Sirisena">Maithripala Sirisena</a>, and he left office on 9 January 2015. Later that year, Rajapaksa unsuccessfully sought to become prime minister in the <a href="/wiki/2015_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election" title="2015 Sri Lankan parliamentary election">2015 parliamentary election</a>; that year, the <a href="/wiki/United_People%27s_Freedom_Alliance" title="United People's Freedom Alliance">United People's Freedom Alliance</a> was defeated but was elected as the Member of Parliament for the Kurunegala District.<sup id="cite_ref-PM_defeated_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PM_defeated-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 26 October 2018, Rajapaksa was appointed to the office of prime minister by President Maithripala Sirisena after the United People's Freedom Alliance withdrew from the unity government. The incumbent, <a href="/wiki/Ranil_Wickremesinghe" title="Ranil Wickremesinghe">Ranil Wickremesinghe</a>, refused to accept his dismissal, stating that it was unconstitutional. This disagreement resulted in <a href="/wiki/2018_Sri_Lankan_constitutional_crisis" title="2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis">a constitutional crisis</a>. The Sri Lankan Parliament passed two <a href="/wiki/No-confidence_motion" class="mw-redirect" title="No-confidence motion">no-confidence motions</a> brought against Rajapaksa on 14 and 16 November 2018. Failing to follow proper procedures, President Sirisena rejected both. On 3 December 2018, a court suspended Rajapaksa's powers as prime minister, ruling that his cabinet could not function until establishing its legitimacy. Rajapaksa resigned from the post of prime minister on 15 December 2018. Wickremesinghe was re-appointed as prime minister, and Rajapaksa was appointed Leader of the Opposition.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rajapaksa became the leader of the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Podujana_Peramuna" title="Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna">Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna</a> in 2019, splitting the Sri Lanka Freedom Party. He became prime minister again on 21 November 2019 after being appointed by his brother, <a href="/wiki/Gotabaya_Rajapaksa" title="Gotabaya Rajapaksa">Gotabaya Rajapaksa</a>, who had become president on 18 November after winning the <a href="/wiki/2019_Sri_Lankan_presidential_election" title="2019 Sri Lankan presidential election">2019 Sri Lankan presidential election</a>. On 9 August 2020, Rajapaksa was sworn in as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka for the fourth time at a Buddhist temple on Colombo's outskirts. On 3 May 2022, a <a href="/wiki/Motion_of_no_confidence" title="Motion of no confidence">motion of no confidence</a> aimed at Rajapaksa and his cabinet was declared by opposition leaders.<sup id="cite_ref-ABCNews2022_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ABCNews2022-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was targeted during the <a href="/wiki/2022_Sri_Lankan_protests" title="2022 Sri Lankan protests">2022 Sri Lankan protests</a> over the corruption and mismanagement by the Rajapaksa family which led to an <a href="/wiki/2019%E2%80%93present_Sri_Lankan_economic_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="2019–present Sri Lankan economic crisis">economic crisis</a> that brought Sri Lanka to the point of bankruptcy as it defaulted on its loans for the first time in its history since independence. Protesters called him "<a href="/wiki/Myna" title="Myna">Myna</a>" and demanded his resignation which he resisted. On 9 May 2022, Mahinda Rajapaksa organised his supporters at his official residence who were brought by buses and led by SLPP MPs. The loyalists then attacked protestors at <a href="/wiki/Temple_Trees" title="Temple Trees">Temple Trees</a> before assaulting protestors at <a href="/wiki/Galle_Face_Green" title="Galle Face Green">Galle Face</a> as attacks were carried out simultaneously against protests in other areas; however this intensified protests and retaliatory violence against Rajapaksa loyalists erupted islandwide and Mahinda Rajapaksa submitted his <a href="/wiki/Letter_of_resignation" title="Letter of resignation">letter of resignation</a> the same day.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During Rajapaksa's political career, he has been accused of multiple crimes including war crimes during the last years of the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_civil_war" title="Sri Lankan civil war">Sri Lankan civil war</a> as well as other criminal accusations including human rights violations during his presidency, corruption and for instigating violence on anti-government protestors on 9 May 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of 2023 he has been sanctioned by Canada for human rights violations.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2></div> <p>Rajapaksa spent his formative years at the <a href="/wiki/Medamulana_Walawwa" title="Medamulana Walawwa">family home in Medamulana</a>. At the age of six, he was sent to his father's school <a href="/wiki/Richmond_College_(Sri_Lanka)" class="mw-redirect" title="Richmond College (Sri Lanka)">Richmond College</a> in <a href="/wiki/Galle" title="Galle">Galle</a>. Initially, he and his elder brother were boarded with a family in Galle, later their mother rented a house in Galle called the 'Singapore House' and moved there to facilitate the education of the growing family. In the mid-fifties, the Rajapaksa family moved to Colombo and Mahinda Rajapaksa was admitted to <a href="/wiki/Nalanda_College,_Colombo" title="Nalanda College, Colombo">Nalanda College, Colombo</a>. Later in 1957, he transferred to <a href="/wiki/Thurstan_College" title="Thurstan College">Thurstan College</a>, where he took part in sports such as <a href="/wiki/Cricket" title="Cricket">cricket</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rugby_football" title="Rugby football">rugby</a> and athletics, taking part in the 400m relay team and becoming the <a href="/wiki/Shot_put" title="Shot put">shot put</a> champion.<sup id="cite_ref-pres-profile_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pres-profile-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ft1_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ft1-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the mid-sixties, he started work as a library assistant at the <a href="/wiki/Vidyodaya_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Vidyodaya University">Vidyodaya Pirivena</a> and soon became active in leftwing politics. He became a member of the Ceylon Mercantile Union and was elected its branch secretary in 1967. His father who had lost his parliamentary seat in the <a href="/wiki/1965_Ceylonese_parliamentary_election" title="1965 Ceylonese parliamentary election">1965 general elections</a>, died in November 1967. The <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Freedom_Party" title="Sri Lanka Freedom Party">Sri Lanka Freedom Party</a> (SLFP) party leader <a href="/wiki/Sirimavo_Bandaranaike" title="Sirimavo Bandaranaike">Sirimavo Bandaranaike</a> offered his father's post of SLFP party organiser for the <a href="/wiki/Beliatta_Electoral_District" title="Beliatta Electoral District">Beliatta electorate</a> to his older brother Chamal. Chamal who had joined the <a href="/wiki/Ceylon_Police_Force" class="mw-redirect" title="Ceylon Police Force">Ceylon Police Force</a> as a <a href="/wiki/Sub-inspector" title="Sub-inspector">Sub-inspector</a>, turndown Mrs Bandaranaike's offer in favour of his younger brother and Mahinda Rajapaksa was appointed as SLFP organiser for Beliatta in 1968.<sup id="cite_ref-ft1_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ft1-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-President_Mahinda_Rajapaksa_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-President_Mahinda_Rajapaksa-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_career">Political career</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="House_of_Representatives">House of Representatives</h3></div> <p>Rajapaksa contested the <a href="/wiki/1970_Ceylonese_parliamentary_election" title="1970 Ceylonese parliamentary election">1970 general elections</a> as the SLFP candidate for the Beliatta constituency and was elected to the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Representatives_(Ceylon)" title="House of Representatives (Ceylon)">House of Representatives</a> having gained 23,103 votes against his rival Dr <a href="/wiki/Ranjit_Atapattu" title="Ranjit Atapattu">Ranjit Atapattu</a> from the <a href="/wiki/United_National_Party" title="United National Party">United National Party</a> (UNP) who gained 16,477. At the time he was the youngest <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Member of Parliament (Sri Lanka)">member of parliament</a> (MP) at the age of twenty-four years and served as a <a href="/wiki/Backbencher" title="Backbencher">backbencher</a> in the governing party.<sup id="cite_ref-When_Mahinda_became_the_youngest_MP_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-When_Mahinda_became_the_youngest_MP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following changes to the admission process to the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Law_College" title="Sri Lanka Law College">Sri Lanka Law College</a>, which allowed young MPs to gain admission, he entered Sri Lanka Law College and studied law while serving as an MP. In July 1977, Rajapaksa lost his parliamentary seat in SLFP's landslide defeat in the <a href="/wiki/1977_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election" title="1977 Sri Lankan parliamentary election">1977 general elections</a>, to Dr Ranjit Atapattu who had gained 24,289 votes to Rajapaksa's 17,896.<sup id="cite_ref-pres-profile_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pres-profile-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ft1_16-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ft1-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Legal_career">Legal career</h3></div> <p>In November 1977, Rajapaksa was <a href="/wiki/Called_to_the_bar" class="mw-redirect" title="Called to the bar">called to the bar</a> as an <a href="/wiki/Attorney_at_law" title="Attorney at law">attorney at law</a>. He thereafter started his legal practice in criminal law in the <a href="/wiki/Unofficial_Bar" title="Unofficial Bar">Unofficial Bar</a> in <a href="/wiki/Tangalle" title="Tangalle">Tangalle</a>, which he did until 1994.<sup id="cite_ref-pres-profile_15-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pres-profile-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ft1_16-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ft1-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-President_Mahinda_Rajapaksa_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-President_Mahinda_Rajapaksa-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Opposition">Opposition</h3></div> <p>He continued to engage in politics and was re-elected to parliament in 1989, representing Hambantota District under proportional representation. He came to prominence as a leader, together with <a href="/wiki/Richard_de_Zoysa#Government_response" title="Richard de Zoysa">Dr Manorani Saravanamuttu</a> of the Mothers' Front. Saravanamuttu's organization united the mothers of those who had "disappeared" during the <a href="/wiki/1987%E2%80%931989_JVP_insurrection" title="1987–1989 JVP insurrection">1987–1989 JVP insurrection</a>; the insurrection was instigated by a rebel group that called themselves <span title="Sinhala-language text"><i lang="si">Deshapremi Jathika Vyaparaya</i></span>, or "Patriotic National Movement".<sup id="cite_ref-pres-profile_15-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pres-profile-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the insurrection, Rajapaksa frequently tried to encourage third-party intervention. He frequently complained about Sri Lanka's situation while in Geneva; he claimed that to restore democratic ideals, it is neither treacherous nor unpatriotic to seek third-party intervention. He also demanded that the United Nations, alongside <a href="/wiki/Non-governmental_organization" title="Non-governmental organization">NGOs</a> such as <a href="/wiki/Amnesty_International" title="Amnesty International">Amnesty International</a>, be allowed to come to Sri Lanka and investigate.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rajapaksa requested that foreign nations put human-rights-related conditions on Sri Lanka when giving aid. On 25 October 1990, he said, "If the government is going to deny human rights, we should go not only to Geneva, but to any place in the world, or hell if necessary, and act against the government. The lamentation of this country's innocents should be raised anywhere."<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1994, Rajapaksa appeared in the Sinhalese film <i>Nomiyena Minisun</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-When_Mahinda_became_the_youngest_MP_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-When_Mahinda_became_the_youngest_MP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Appointment_as_cabinet_minister">Appointment as cabinet minister</h3></div> <p>In 1994, following the <a href="/wiki/Elections_in_Sri_Lanka" title="Elections in Sri Lanka">election</a> victory of the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Alliance_(Sri_Lanka)" title="People's Alliance (Sri Lanka)">People's Alliance</a>, a political front led by Sri Lanka Freedom Party and headed by <a href="/wiki/Chandrika_Kumaratunga" title="Chandrika Kumaratunga">Chandrika Kumaratunga</a>, Rajapaksa was appointed Minister of Labor. He held this post until 1997 when, following a cabinet reshuffle, his portfolio was changed to Minister of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources.<sup id="cite_ref-pres-profile_15-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pres-profile-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Leader_of_the_Opposition">Leader of the Opposition</h3></div> <p>When the <a href="/wiki/United_National_Party" title="United National Party">United National Party</a> (UNP) defeated the People's Alliance in the 2001 elections, Rajapaksa lost his position in the government. He was however appointed as <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Opposition_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Leader of the Opposition (Sri Lanka)">Leader of the Opposition</a> in March 2002.<sup id="cite_ref-pres-profile_15-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pres-profile-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Prime_Minister_(2004–2005)"><span id="Prime_Minister_.282004.E2.80.932005.29"></span>Prime Minister (2004–2005)</h3></div> <p>After Sri Lanka's 2004 parliamentary elections, in which the <a href="/wiki/United_People%27s_Freedom_Alliance" title="United People's Freedom Alliance">United People's Freedom Alliance</a> gained a slim majority, Rajapaksa became the new prime minister. He was sworn in as Sri Lanka's 13th Prime Minister on 6 April 2004.<sup id="cite_ref-pres-profile_15-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pres-profile-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While Rajapaksa was prime minister, he was also in charge of the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Highways,_Ports_%26_Shipping" title="Ministry of Highways, Ports & Shipping">Ministry of Highways, Ports & Shipping</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Presidency">Presidency</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="First_term">First term</h3></div> <table class="infobox" style="width:auto;text-align:left;line-height:1.2em;margin-left:1em; margin-right:0; float:right; clear:right;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="3" style="line-height:1.5em;font-size:110%;background:#DCDCDC;text-align:center"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Mahinda Rajapaksa</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Rajapaksa_cabinet" class="mw-redirect" title="Rajapaksa cabinet">first term cabinet</a><br />10 most senior members</th></tr><tr><th>Office</th><th>Name</th><th>Term</th></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#000"></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Prime Minister of Sri Lanka">Prime Minister</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Ratnasiri_Wickremanayake" title="Ratnasiri Wickremanayake">Ratnasiri Wickremanayake</a></th><td>2005–2010</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/D._M._Jayaratne" title="D. M. Jayaratne">D. M. Jayaratne</a></th><td>2010-2010</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Foreign_Affairs_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Minister of Foreign Affairs (Sri Lanka)">Minister of Foreign Affairs</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Mangala_Samaraweera" title="Mangala Samaraweera">Mangala Samaraweera</a></th><td>2005–2007</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Rohitha_Bogollagama" title="Rohitha Bogollagama">Rohitha Bogollagama</a></th><td>2007–2010</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/G._L._Peiris" title="G. L. Peiris">G. L. Peiris</a></th><td>2010-2010</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Defence_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Minister of Defence (Sri Lanka)">Minister of Defence</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold">Himself</th><td>2005–2010</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Finance_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Minister of Finance (Sri Lanka)">Minister of Finance</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold">Himself</th><td>2005–2010</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Justice_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Minister of Justice (Sri Lanka)">Minister of Justice</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Amarasiri_Dodangoda" title="Amarasiri Dodangoda">Amarasiri Dodangoda</a>*</th><td>2005–2009</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Milinda_Moragoda" title="Milinda Moragoda">Milinda Moragoda</a></th><td>2009–2010</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Athauda_Seneviratne" title="Athauda Seneviratne">Athauda Seneviratne</a></th><td>2010-2010</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="4"><a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Home_Affairs_(Sri_Lanka)" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of Home Affairs (Sri Lanka)">Minister of Home Affairs</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Sarath_Amunugama_(politician)" title="Sarath Amunugama (politician)">Sarath Amunugama</a></th><td>2005–2007</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Karu_Jayasuriya" title="Karu Jayasuriya">Karu Jayasuriya</a></th><td>2007–2008</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Sarath_Amunugama_(politician)" title="Sarath Amunugama (politician)">Sarath Amunugama</a></th><td>2009–2010</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/John_Seneviratne" title="John Seneviratne">John Seneviratne</a></th><td>2010-2010</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Industry_and_Commerce_(Sri_Lanka)" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of Industry and Commerce (Sri Lanka)">Minister of Industry and Commerce</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Sarath_Amunugama_(politician)" title="Sarath Amunugama (politician)">Sarath Amunugama</a>*</th><td>2005–2007</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Kumara_Welgama" title="Kumara Welgama">Kumara Welgama</a></th><td>2007–2010</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Risad_Badhiutheen" class="mw-redirect" title="Risad Badhiutheen">Risad Badhiutheen</a></th><td>2010-2010</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Health,_Nutrition_and_Indigenous_Medicine" class="mw-redirect" title="Ministry of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine">Minister of Healthcare and Nutrition</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Nimal_Siripala_de_Silva" title="Nimal Siripala de Silva">Nimal Siripala de Silva</a>*</th><td>2005–2010</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Maithripala_Sirisena" title="Maithripala Sirisena">Maithripala Sirisena</a></th><td>2010-2010</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Education_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Minister of Education (Sri Lanka)">Minister of Education</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Susil_Premajayantha" title="Susil Premajayantha">Susil Premajayantha</a></th><td>2005–2010</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Bandula_Gunawardane" title="Bandula Gunawardane">Bandula Gunawardane</a></th><td>2010-2010</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Agriculture_(Sri_Lanka)" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of Agriculture (Sri Lanka)">Minister of Agriculture</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Maithripala_Sirisena" title="Maithripala Sirisena">Maithripala Sirisena</a></th><td>2005–2010</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Mahinda_Yapa_Abeywardena" title="Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena">Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena</a></th><td>2010-2010</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-top:#D1D1D1 2px solid"><i>*Retained from previous administration</i></td></tr></tbody></table> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2005_Sri_Lankan_presidential_election" title="2005 Sri Lankan presidential election">2005 Sri Lankan presidential election</a></div> <p>Mahinda Rajapaksa was chosen by the Sri Lanka Freedom Party to run against <a href="/wiki/Ranil_Wickremesinghe" title="Ranil Wickremesinghe">Ranil Wickremesinghe</a>, former prime minister and <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Opposition_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Leader of the Opposition (Sri Lanka)">Opposition Leader</a>. Wickremesinghe was the leader of the <a href="/wiki/United_National_Party" title="United National Party">United National Party</a> in the <a href="/wiki/2005_Sri_Lankan_presidential_election" title="2005 Sri Lankan presidential election">presidential election</a> held on 17 November 2005. Despite the huge election campaign led by the UNP, Mahinda Rajapaksa was able to gain a narrow victory, by 190,000 votes. Rajapaksa's opponents claimed that he won only because the <a href="/wiki/LTTE" class="mw-redirect" title="LTTE">LTTE</a> called for Tamil voters to boycott the polls. Most voters in these areas were forcibly restrained from voting, and it is said that they would have favoured Wickremesinghe of the UNP party.<sup id="cite_ref-bbc-11/18/05_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc-11/18/05-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rajapaksa received 50.3% of the vote.<sup id="cite_ref-BBC_News_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC_News-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After becoming President of Sri Lanka, Rajapaksa reshuffled the cabinet and took the portfolios of Defense and Finance in the new cabinet, which was sworn in on 23 November 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-BBC_News_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC_News-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Immediately following his election in 2005, Rajapaksa extended the term of the <a href="/wiki/Commander_of_the_Sri_Lanka_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Commander of the Sri Lanka Army">Commander of the Sri Lanka Army</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sarath_Fonseka" title="Sarath Fonseka">Sarath Fonseka</a>, less than 30 days before he was scheduled to retire.<sup id="cite_ref-Reddy_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reddy-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Over the next three and a half years, Fonseka and Rajapaksa's brother, Defense Secretary <a href="/wiki/Gotabhaya_Rajapaksa" class="mw-redirect" title="Gotabhaya Rajapaksa">Gotabhaya Rajapaksa</a>, led the country's armed forces in their battle against the <a href="/wiki/Liberation_Tigers_of_Tamil_Eelam" title="Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam">Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam</a> (LTTE, or Tamil Tigers), ultimately defeating the Tigers and killing their leader, <a href="/wiki/Velupillai_Prabhakaran" title="Velupillai Prabhakaran">Velupillai Prabhakaran</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Reddy_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reddy-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Sri_Lankan_Civil_War">Sri Lankan Civil War</h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri Lankan Civil War">Sri Lankan Civil War</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eelam_War_IV" title="Eelam War IV">Eelam War IV</a></div> <p>Although styling himself as a man of peace and a willing negotiator, Rajapaksa signalled his intention to end the peace process once in power by allying with the Sinhalese nationalist parties, <a href="/wiki/Janatha_Vimukthi_Peramuna" title="Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna">Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna</a> (JVP) and <a href="/wiki/Jathika_Hela_Urumaya" title="Jathika Hela Urumaya">Jathika Hela Urumaya</a>. The JVP had opposed the original 2002 peace process as treasonous.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:WEF_on_the_Middle_East_Arab_and_foreign_Ministers.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/WEF_on_the_Middle_East_Arab_and_foreign_Ministers.jpg/300px-WEF_on_the_Middle_East_Arab_and_foreign_Ministers.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="206" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/WEF_on_the_Middle_East_Arab_and_foreign_Ministers.jpg/450px-WEF_on_the_Middle_East_Arab_and_foreign_Ministers.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/WEF_on_the_Middle_East_Arab_and_foreign_Ministers.jpg/600px-WEF_on_the_Middle_East_Arab_and_foreign_Ministers.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3092" data-file-height="2128" /></a><figcaption>President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the <a href="/wiki/World_Economic_Forum" title="World Economic Forum">World Economic Forum</a> session in <a href="/wiki/Jordan" title="Jordan">Jordan</a> on 15 May 2009, just three days before the death of LTTE head Vellupillai Prabhakaran</figcaption></figure> <p>The agreement made with Rajapaksa included provisions that called for a revision of the ceasefire agreement to give the military broader powers against the LTTE, as well as ruling out any devolution of power to the Tamil people. Furthermore, the cessation of aid to the <a href="/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_and_tsunami" title="2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami">tsunami-damaged</a> LTTE-occupied areas, and the sidelining of the Norwegian facilitators due to their alleged bias were included.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Immediately following his election victory, a series of mine blasts blamed on the LTTE claimed the lives of many off-duty servicemen and civilians, pushing the country back to the brink of civil war.<sup id="cite_ref-st1_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-st1-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following the closure by the LTTE of the <a href="/wiki/Mavil_Aru" title="Mavil Aru">Mavil Aru</a> reservoir <a href="/wiki/Water_supply" title="Water supply">supplying</a> water to 15,000 people in government-controlled areas on 21 July 2006,<sup id="cite_ref-bbc12_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc12-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the Sri Lankan military launched an offensive against the LTTE, bringing the entire reservoir under government control. Further military engagements led to the LTTE being driven out of the entire <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Province_(Sri_Lanka)" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Province (Sri Lanka)">Eastern Province</a> of Sri Lanka and loss of 95% of the territory they had controlled.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-mahinda-un-2007-reuters_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mahinda-un-2007-reuters-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-mahinda-asiantribune-2007_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mahinda-asiantribune-2007-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Sri Lankan government declared total victory on 18 May 2009. On 19 May 2009, President Rajapaksa delivered a victory address to the Parliament and declared that Sri Lanka was liberated from terrorism.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Relationship_with_Lasantha_Wickrematunge">Relationship with Lasantha Wickrematunge</h3></div> <p>On 11 January 2006, <a href="/wiki/Lasantha_Wickrematunge" title="Lasantha Wickrematunge">Lasantha Wickrematunge</a> alleged he was threatened by President Mahinda Rajapaksa with whom he had a close personal friendship with for over 20 years. Wickrematunge was allegedly abused in foul language in a telephone call <sup id="cite_ref-sl251107_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sl251107-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Wickrematunge the President had threatened to “destroy him” over a publication in his newspaper involving <a href="/wiki/First_Lady" class="mw-redirect" title="First Lady">First Lady</a> <a href="/wiki/Shiranthi_Rajapaksa" class="mw-redirect" title="Shiranthi Rajapaksa">Shiranthi Rajapaksa</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-sl251107_36-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sl251107-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Wickrematunge was detained briefly at <a href="/wiki/Bandaranaike_International_Airport" title="Bandaranaike International Airport">Bandaranaike International Airport</a> on 21 February 2006 as he arrived for a flight to <a href="/wiki/Geneva" title="Geneva">Geneva</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-sl251107_36-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sl251107-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Airport officials had claimed that Wickrematunge required "special permission" to leave <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka" title="Sri Lanka">Sri Lanka</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 8 January 2009, Lasantha Wickrematunge was assassinated on the streets of <a href="/wiki/Colombo" title="Colombo">Colombo</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After Mahinda Rajapaksa's defeat at the <a href="/wiki/2015_Sri_Lankan_presidential_election" title="2015 Sri Lankan presidential election">presidential election in 2015</a>, the new government of President <a href="/wiki/Maithripala_Sirisena" title="Maithripala Sirisena">Maithripala Sirisena</a> reopened the investigation over allegations that former Defence Secretary <a href="/wiki/Gotabhaya_Rajapaksa" class="mw-redirect" title="Gotabhaya Rajapaksa">Gotabhaya Rajapaksa</a> ordered the assassination.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Allegations_of_war_crimes">Allegations of war crimes</h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Alleged_war_crimes_during_the_final_stages_of_the_Sri_Lankan_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Alleged war crimes during the final stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War">Alleged war crimes during the final stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War</a></div> <p>In 2010, <a href="/wiki/WikiLeaks" title="WikiLeaks">WikiLeaks</a> made public <a href="/wiki/Contents_of_the_United_States_diplomatic_cables_leak_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Contents of the United States diplomatic cables leak (Sri Lanka)">classified US messages</a> sent during 2009 and 2010, stating that American diplomats, including the US Ambassador to Sri Lanka <a href="/wiki/Patricia_A._Butenis" title="Patricia A. Butenis">Patricia A. Butenis</a>, believed that Rajapaksa was responsible for massacres of Tamil civilians and captured LTTE fighters at the end of the war against the LTTE.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The cables also stated that the responsibility for many of the alleged crimes rested with the country's senior civilian and military leadership, including President Rajapaksa, his brothers, and General Fonseka.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In April 2011, the Secretary-General of the United Nations <a href="/wiki/Ban_Ki-moon" title="Ban Ki-moon">Ban Ki-moon</a> published a report by an UN-appointed panel of experts, which concluded that as many as 40,000 people were killed in the final weeks of the war between the Tamil Tigers and the government forces.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A number of foreign journalists and news teams, such as the UK's <a href="/wiki/Channel_Four_News" class="mw-redirect" title="Channel Four News">Channel Four News</a>, have reported and filmed evidence of targeted shelling of civilians, executions, and atrocities.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Dead female Tamil fighters appeared to have been raped or sexually assaulted, abused, and murdered.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rajapaksa and his government have denied all allegations of war crimes.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Second_term">Second term</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2010_Sri_Lankan_presidential_election" title="2010 Sri Lankan presidential election">2010 Sri Lankan presidential election</a></div> <table class="infobox" style="width:auto;text-align:left;line-height:1.2em;margin-left:1em; margin-right:0; float:right; clear:right;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="3" style="line-height:1.5em;font-size:110%;background:#DCDCDC;text-align:center"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Mahinda Rajapaksa</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Rajapaksa_cabinet" class="mw-redirect" title="Rajapaksa cabinet">Second term cabinet</a><br />10 most senior members</th></tr><tr><th>Office</th><th>Name</th><th>Term</th></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#000"></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Prime Minister of Sri Lanka">Prime Minister</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/D._M._Jayaratne" title="D. M. Jayaratne">D. M. Jayaratne</a>*</th><td>2010–2015</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Foreign_Affairs_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Minister of Foreign Affairs (Sri Lanka)">Minister of Foreign Affairs</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/G._L._Peiris" title="G. L. Peiris">G. L. Peiris</a>*</th><td>2010–2015</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Defence_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Minister of Defence (Sri Lanka)">Minister of Defence</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold">Himself*</th><td>2010–2015</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Finance_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Minister of Finance (Sri Lanka)">Minister of Finance</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold">Himself*</th><td>2010–2015</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Justice_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Minister of Justice (Sri Lanka)">Minister of Justice</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Rauff_Hakeem" title="Rauff Hakeem">Rauff Hakeem</a></th><td>2010–2015</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Home_Affairs_(Sri_Lanka)" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of Home Affairs (Sri Lanka)">Minister of Home Affairs</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/John_Seneviratne" title="John Seneviratne">John Seneviratne</a>*</th><td>2010–2015</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Industry_and_Commerce_(Sri_Lanka)" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of Industry and Commerce (Sri Lanka)">Minister of Industry and Commerce</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Risad_Badhiutheen" class="mw-redirect" title="Risad Badhiutheen">Risad Badhiutheen</a>*</th><td>2010–2015</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Health,_Nutrition_and_Indigenous_Medicine" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine">Minister of Health</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Maithripala_Sirisena" title="Maithripala Sirisena">Maithripala Sirisena</a>*</th><td>2010–2014</td></tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"></tr><tr><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Tissa_Attanayake" title="Tissa Attanayake">Tissa Attanayake</a></th><td>2014–2015</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Education_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Minister of Education (Sri Lanka)">Minister of Education</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Bandula_Gunawardane" title="Bandula Gunawardane">Bandula Gunawardane</a>*</th><td>2010–2015</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Agriculture_(Sri_Lanka)" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of Agriculture (Sri Lanka)">Minister of Agriculture</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Mahinda_Yapa_Abeywardena" title="Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena">Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena</a>*</th><td>2010–2015</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-top:#D1D1D1 2px solid"><i>*Retained from previous administration</i></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sri_Lankan_Presidential_Election_2010.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Sri_Lankan_Presidential_Election_2010.png/220px-Sri_Lankan_Presidential_Election_2010.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="347" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Sri_Lankan_Presidential_Election_2010.png/330px-Sri_Lankan_Presidential_Election_2010.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Sri_Lankan_Presidential_Election_2010.png/440px-Sri_Lankan_Presidential_Election_2010.png 2x" data-file-width="648" data-file-height="1022" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/2010_Sri_Lankan_presidential_election" title="2010 Sri Lankan presidential election">Sri Lankan Presidential Election 2010</a> – Winners of Districts</figcaption></figure> <p>Following the end of the conflict, a rift emerged between Rajapaksa and Fonseka over reasons which are still disputed. On 15 November 2009, Rajapaksa ordered Fonseka to leave his post as <a href="/wiki/Chief_of_the_Defence_Staff_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Chief of the Defence Staff (Sri Lanka)">Chief of the Defence Staff</a> with immediate effect through a letter from his secretary. Fonseka then joined the opposition as the candidate against Rajapaksa in the <a href="/wiki/2010_Sri_Lankan_presidential_election" title="2010 Sri Lankan presidential election">2010 Presidential election</a>, which Rajapaksa won. Fonseka was subsequently sentenced to two years in jail for various offences by a <a href="/wiki/Court_martial" class="mw-redirect" title="Court martial">court martial</a>. President Rajapaksa signed documents for the release of Fonseka in May 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-BBC-S_Lanka_army_head_leaves_abruptly_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC-S_Lanka_army_head_leaves_abruptly-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Infrastructure_development_projects">Infrastructure development projects</h4></div> <p>His presidency after ending the civil war in 2009 is known for initiating large-scale infrastructure projects such as the <a href="/wiki/Colombo_Lotus_Tower" class="mw-redirect" title="Colombo Lotus Tower">Colombo Lotus Tower</a>, <a href="/wiki/Magampura_Mahinda_Rajapaksa_Port" class="mw-redirect" title="Magampura Mahinda Rajapaksa Port">Magampura Mahinda Rajapaksa Port</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Colombo_Harbour#Expansion_project" class="mw-redirect" title="Colombo Harbour">Colombo Harbour South Container Terminal</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Mattala_Rajapaksa_International_Airport" title="Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport">Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport</a>, the <a href="/wiki/E03_expressway_(Sri_Lanka)" title="E03 expressway (Sri Lanka)">Colombo–Katunayake Expressway</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Mahinda_Rajapaksa_International_Cricket_Stadium" title="Mahinda Rajapaksa International Cricket Stadium">Mahinda Rajapaksa International Cricket Stadium</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sri Lanka also rose into the "high" category of the <a href="/wiki/Human_Development_Index" title="Human Development Index">Human Development Index</a> during this time.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Development projects included highways, roads, a Colombo beautification project, and rural infrastructure development.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the roadway projects reportedly had extremely high costs and were suspected of corruption, and large Chinese loans tripled the country's foreign debt and created an economic crisis.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rajapaksa claimed that under his tenure, Sri Lanka started to experience rapid economic growth and that the gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate reached over 7%.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, these claims have been disputed, and after his terms in office ended, the successor government revealed that GDP growth was inflated by using the year 2002 as the base year. GDP growth for 2013 and 2014, which had been calculated at 7.2% and 7.4% using 2002 as the base year, was reduced to 3.4 and 4.5 percent, respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A forensic audit was launched, with <a href="/wiki/International_Monetary_Fund" title="International Monetary Fund">International Monetary Fund</a> help, on various projects initiated by Rajapaksa.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The audit confirmed that Sri Lanka had additional liabilities of 1.3 trillion rupees (8.9 billion US dollars).<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Third_term">Third term</h3></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Allegations_of_election_fraud">Allegations of election fraud</h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/2005_Sri_Lankan_presidential_election" title="2005 Sri Lankan presidential election">2005 Sri Lankan presidential election</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_presidential_election,_2010" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri Lankan presidential election, 2010">Sri Lankan presidential election, 2010</a></div> <p>Rajapaksa was accused of election fraud in relation to both of his previous presidential election runs. During the 2005 presidential election, opposition parties accused Rajapaksa of bribing the LTTE to dissuade people from voting in the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Northern Province, Sri Lanka">northern</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Eastern Province, Sri Lanka">eastern provinces</a>. Most voters in these areas were forcibly restrained from voting by the militant group and, according to observers, they would have favoured the opposition candidate <a href="/wiki/Ranil_Wickremesinghe" title="Ranil Wickremesinghe">Ranil Wickremesinghe</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 2010 election, Rajapaksa was accused of manipulating election results using computers.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 2015 election, according to the Presidential Commission of Inquiry investigating irregularities into <a href="/wiki/SriLankan_Airlines" title="SriLankan Airlines">SriLankan Airlines</a>, it was revealed that security officers and vehicles of the national carrier had been used in the Rajapaksa's 2015 presidential campaign. At the time, Nishantha Wickramasinghe, a brother-in-law of Rajapaksa, was also Chairman of SriLankan Airlines until Rajapaksa lost the presidential election in 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Abolition_of_term_limits">Abolition of term limits</h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Impeachment_of_Shirani_Bandaranayake" title="Impeachment of Shirani Bandaranayake">Impeachment of Shirani Bandaranayake</a></div> <p>Capitalizing on the end of the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_civil_war" title="Sri Lankan civil war">Sri Lankan Civil War</a> in May 2009, coming off an election win in January 2010, and with the near-collapse of the opposition <a href="/wiki/United_National_Party" title="United National Party">United National Party</a>, President Rajapaksa rallied more than the two-thirds majority in Parliament necessary to pass an amendment to the constitution removing presidential term limits.<sup id="cite_ref-Ends_Presidential_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ends_Presidential-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 9 September 2010, Parliament passed the amendment to remove presidential term limits from the Constitution. This amendment allowed Rajapaksa to run for a third term and cement his grip on power. The move came just a day after the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Supreme Court of Sri Lanka">Supreme Court</a> ruled that a referendum was not required to make the change. The amendment had consequences beyond just term limits, including provisions that increased the president's power to act without oversight, removing an <a href="/wiki/Constitutional_Council_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Constitutional Council (Sri Lanka)">independent advisory council</a> that the president was previously required to consult before appointing people to important non-partisan posts, such as <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Supreme Court of Sri Lanka">Supreme Court</a> judges and members of the human rights and electoral commissions. A <a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_Council" title="Parliamentary Council">Parliamentary Council</a> without veto power and with only two opposition members was created in its place.<sup id="cite_ref-Ends_Presidential_65-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ends_Presidential-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In a move that was widely seen as solidifying his control over the Supreme Court, Rajapaksa <a href="/wiki/Impeachment_of_Shirani_Bandaranayake" title="Impeachment of Shirani Bandaranayake">removed</a> chief justice <a href="/wiki/Shirani_Bandaranayake" title="Shirani Bandaranayake">Shirani Bandaranayake</a> from office in January 2013, allowing Rajapaksa to appoint an ally and legal adviser, former <a href="/wiki/Attorney_General_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Attorney General of Sri Lanka">Attorney General</a> <a href="/wiki/Mohan_Peiris" title="Mohan Peiris">Mohan Peiris</a>, as Chief Justice.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In November 2014, the Supreme Court dismissed legal objections regarding President Rajapaksa's eligibility to seek a third term.<sup id="cite_ref-Seek_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Seek-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Two years ahead of schedule, in November 2014, Rajapaksa signed an official proclamation confirming that he would seek re-election for a third term, after being unanimously endorsed by the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Freedom_Party" title="Sri Lanka Freedom Party">Sri Lanka Freedom Party</a>. Though his second term officially was to end in November 2016, he could legally seek re-election after completing four years in office, a marker he passed on 19 November.<sup id="cite_ref-Seek_69-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Seek-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2015_presidential_campaign">2015 presidential campaign</h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2015_Sri_Lankan_presidential_election" title="2015 Sri Lankan presidential election">2015 Sri Lankan presidential election</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wahlbezirkskarte_Praesidentschaft_Sri_Lanka_2015.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Wahlbezirkskarte_Praesidentschaft_Sri_Lanka_2015.svg/220px-Wahlbezirkskarte_Praesidentschaft_Sri_Lanka_2015.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="344" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Wahlbezirkskarte_Praesidentschaft_Sri_Lanka_2015.svg/330px-Wahlbezirkskarte_Praesidentschaft_Sri_Lanka_2015.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Wahlbezirkskarte_Praesidentschaft_Sri_Lanka_2015.svg/440px-Wahlbezirkskarte_Praesidentschaft_Sri_Lanka_2015.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="454" data-file-height="709" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/2015_Sri_Lankan_presidential_election" title="2015 Sri Lankan presidential election">Sri Lankan Presidential Election 2015</a> – Winners of polling divisions</figcaption></figure> <p>In the run-up to the election, several people had been suggested for nomination as the common opposition candidate: former President <a href="/wiki/Chandrika_Kumaratunga" title="Chandrika Kumaratunga">Chandrika Kumaratunga</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_National_Party" title="United National Party">UNP</a> leader <a href="/wiki/Ranil_Wickremesinghe" title="Ranil Wickremesinghe">Ranil Wickremesinghe</a>, UNP Leadership Council Chairman <a href="/wiki/Karu_Jayasuriya" title="Karu Jayasuriya">Karu Jayasuriya</a>, former Chief Justice <a href="/wiki/Shirani_Bandaranayake" title="Shirani Bandaranayake">Shirani Bandaranayake</a>, and leader of the National Movement for Social Justice <a href="/wiki/Maduluwawe_Sobitha_Thero" title="Maduluwawe Sobitha Thero">Maduluwawe Sobitha Thero</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, on 21 November 2014, after the election had been called, <a href="/wiki/Maithripala_Sirisena" title="Maithripala Sirisena">Maithripala Sirisena</a> was announced as the common opposition candidate by the UNP.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sirisena had been Minister of Health in Rajapaksa's government and general secretary of the SLFP before defecting to the opposition coalition.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sirisena immediately received the support of former President Chandrika Kumaratunga and several UPFA MPs that had defected alongside him (<a href="/wiki/Duminda_Dissanayake" title="Duminda Dissanayake">Duminda Dissanayake</a>, <a href="/wiki/M._K._D._S._Gunawardena" class="mw-redirect" title="M. K. D. S. Gunawardena">M. K. D. S. Gunawardena</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wasantha_Senanayake" class="mw-redirect" title="Wasantha Senanayake">Wasantha Senanayake</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rajitha_Senaratne" title="Rajitha Senaratne">Rajitha Senaratne</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Rajiva_Wijesinha" title="Rajiva Wijesinha">Rajiva Wijesinha</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sirisena and the other UPFA MPs were stripped of their ministerial positions and expelled from the SLFP.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rajapaksa received the backing of a number of small constituent parties of the UPFA, including the <a href="/wiki/Ceylon_Workers%27_Congress" title="Ceylon Workers' Congress">Ceylon Workers' Congress</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Communist Party of Sri Lanka">Communist Party</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the <a href="/wiki/Lanka_Sama_Samaja_Party" title="Lanka Sama Samaja Party">Lanka Sama Samaja Party</a> (LSSP),<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the <a href="/wiki/National_Freedom_Front" class="mw-redirect" title="National Freedom Front">National Freedom Front</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the National Union of Workers,<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/Up-Country_People%27s_Front" title="Up-Country People's Front">Up-Country People's Front</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On nomination day, 8 December 2014, two opposition MPs, <a href="/wiki/Tissa_Attanayake" title="Tissa Attanayake">Tissa Attanayake</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jayantha_Ketagoda" title="Jayantha Ketagoda">Jayantha Ketagoda</a>, defected to the government to support Rajapaksa.<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Attanayake was later appointed Minister of Health, the post previously held by Sirisena.<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rajapaksa also received support from the Buddhist extremist group <a href="/wiki/Bodu_Bala_Sena" title="Bodu Bala Sena">Bodu Bala Sena</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>However, the <a href="/wiki/Jathika_Hela_Urumaya" title="Jathika Hela Urumaya">Jathika Hela Urumaya</a> (JHU) party withdrew from the UPFA government on 18 November 2014, citing Rajapaksa's refusal to reform the <a href="/wiki/Executive_presidency" class="mw-redirect" title="Executive presidency">executive presidency</a> and enact reforms to promote accountability.<sup id="cite_ref-Seek_69-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Seek-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After much hesitation, the <a href="/wiki/All_Ceylon_Muslim_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="All Ceylon Muslim Congress">All Ceylon Muslim Congress</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Muslim_Congress" title="Sri Lanka Muslim Congress">Sri Lanka Muslim Congress</a> also withdrew from the UPFA government, on 22 and 28 December 2014 respectively, blaming the government's failure to protect Sri Lankan Muslims from <a href="/wiki/Sinhalese_Buddhist_nationalism" title="Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism">Sinhalese Buddhist extremists</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rajapaksa released his manifesto, titled <i>Mahinda's Vision — The World Winning Path</i>, on 23 December 2014 at the <a href="/wiki/Bandaranaike_Memorial_International_Conference_Hall" title="Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall">Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The manifesto pledged to introduce a new constitution within one year of being elected, but not to abolish the executive presidency — it would be amended and the "weakness" in the parliamentary system eliminated.<sup id="cite_ref-ST281214_101-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ST281214-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A naval force and a special security force would be set up, with the help of the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Army" title="Sri Lanka Army">army</a>, to tackle drug trafficking and other <a href="/wiki/Organized_crime" title="Organized crime">organised crime</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ST281214_101-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ST281214-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The manifesto also pledged to establish a transparent judicial inquiry into the <a href="/wiki/Alleged_war_crimes_during_the_final_stages_of_the_Sri_Lankan_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Alleged war crimes during the final stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War">alleged war crimes during the final stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War</a>, but Rajapaksa had refused to co-operate with the UN investigation.<sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/2015_Sri_Lankan_presidential_election" title="2015 Sri Lankan presidential election">presidential election</a> of 8 January 2015, Rajapaksa was defeated by his ex-aide <a href="/wiki/Maithripala_Sirisena" title="Maithripala Sirisena">Maithripala Sirisena</a>, winning only 47.6% of the vote.<sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many had accused Rajapaksa of <a href="/wiki/Authoritarian_socialism" title="Authoritarian socialism">authoritarianism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nepotism" title="Nepotism">nepotism</a>, poor governance, and corruption.<sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Chinese_interference_and_vote_buying">Chinese interference and vote buying</h4></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:CPA_Posters_on_Presidential_Elections_2015_IMG_5649_(15951665725).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/CPA_Posters_on_Presidential_Elections_2015_IMG_5649_%2815951665725%29.jpg/220px-CPA_Posters_on_Presidential_Elections_2015_IMG_5649_%2815951665725%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/CPA_Posters_on_Presidential_Elections_2015_IMG_5649_%2815951665725%29.jpg/330px-CPA_Posters_on_Presidential_Elections_2015_IMG_5649_%2815951665725%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/CPA_Posters_on_Presidential_Elections_2015_IMG_5649_%2815951665725%29.jpg/440px-CPA_Posters_on_Presidential_Elections_2015_IMG_5649_%2815951665725%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2100" data-file-height="1400" /></a><figcaption>Rajapaksa election posters</figcaption></figure> <p>In June 2018, <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> reported that President Rajapaksa, during the 2015 presidential campaign and elections, received large payments from a Chinese port construction fund that flowed directly to campaign aides and activities. Rajapaksa had agreed to Chinese terms and was seen as an important ally in China's efforts to tilt influence away from India in South Asia. The payments were confirmed by documents and checks detailed in a government investigation report obtained by <i>The New York Times</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Cough_110-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cough-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the final months of the election, the <a href="/wiki/List_of_ambassadors_of_China_to_Sri_Lanka" title="List of ambassadors of China to Sri Lanka">ambassador of China to Sri Lanka</a> had lobbied voters, "even caddies at Colombo's premier golf course", to support Rajapaksa over the opposition, which was threatening to tear up economic agreements with the Chinese government.<sup id="cite_ref-Cough_110-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cough-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>With the election coming around, large payments started to flow toward the president's circle. Affiliates of Rajapaksa's campaign received at least $7.6 million that was dispensed from China Harbor's account at Standard Chartered Bank. A sum of around $3.7 million was distributed in checks with ten days to go before polls opened, including $678,000 to print campaign t-shirts and other promotional material, and $297,000 to buy supporters' gifts, including women's saris. $38,000 was paid to a popular Buddhist monk who was supporting the Rajapaksa campaign, while two checks totalling $1.7 million were delivered by volunteers to <a href="/wiki/Temple_Trees" title="Temple Trees">Temple Trees</a>. A subaccount controlled by China Harbor, called "HPDP Phase 2", shorthand for Hambantota Port Development Project, was the source of most of the payments.<sup id="cite_ref-Cough_110-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cough-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-111" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-111"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-112" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rajapaksa responded in the <i><a href="/wiki/Colombo_Telegraph" title="Colombo Telegraph">Colombo Telegraph</a></i> by calling the article "part of a political mudslinging campaign".<sup id="cite_ref-113" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-113"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-114" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-114"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In July 2018, a joint Chinese-Sri Lankan company, Colombo International Container Terminals Limited (CICT), confirmed paying nearly 20 million Sri Lankan rupees as a donation to the Pushpa Rajapaksa Foundation, a private fund meant to build houses for the poor. Pushpa Rajapaksa is Mahinda Rajapaksa's sister-in-law, wife of his brother, <a href="/wiki/Basil_Rajapaksa" title="Basil Rajapaksa">Basil Rajapaksa</a>, who was also his economic development minister. CICT did not say how the money was used.<sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-115"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Post-presidency">Post-presidency</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Alleged_coup_d'état_attempt"><span id="Alleged_coup_d.27.C3.A9tat_attempt"></span>Alleged coup d'état attempt</h3></div> <p>According to Sri Lankan MP <a href="/wiki/Athuraliye_Rathana_Thero" title="Athuraliye Rathana Thero">Athuraliye Rathana Thero</a>, Rajapaksa attempted a coup d'état hours after the announcement of the election results, in order to remain in power, but the Army Chief, <a href="/wiki/Jagath_Jayasuriya" title="Jagath Jayasuriya">Jagath Jayasuriya</a>, disobeyed the orders.<sup id="cite_ref-116" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-116"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-117" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-117"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to MPs <a href="/wiki/Rajitha_Senaratne" title="Rajitha Senaratne">Rajitha Senaratne</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mangala_Samaraweera" title="Mangala Samaraweera">Mangala Samaraweera</a>, before going to the Army Chief, Rajapaksa had earlier instructed the Attorney General to prepare the necessary documentation for the issuance of a <a href="/wiki/State_of_Emergency" class="mw-redirect" title="State of Emergency">State of Emergency</a>, but the Attorney General had refused.<sup id="cite_ref-118" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-118"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rajapaksa subsequently accepted defeat and left the <a href="/wiki/Temple_Trees" title="Temple Trees">Temple Trees</a>, the official residence of president, with the control of the government peacefully transferring to Maithripala Sirisena.<sup id="cite_ref-119" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-119"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Sirisena government launched a probe into the alleged coup by Rajapaksa.<sup id="cite_ref-120" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-120"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The government argued that Rajapaksa attempted to seize the poll-counting centres when he realised that he was losing the election.<sup id="cite_ref-121" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-121"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One of the witnesses, the Attorney General, described to the <a href="/wiki/Criminal_Investigation_Department_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Criminal Investigation Department (Sri Lanka)">Criminal Investigation Department</a> the coup attempt made by Rajapaksa. The Attorney General said that he had refused to act on behalf of Rajapaksa.<sup id="cite_ref-122" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-122"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Former army chief General Sarath Fonseka claimed that the Rajapaksa had moved about 2,000 troops into <a href="/wiki/Colombo" title="Colombo">Colombo</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Northern Province, Sri Lanka">Northern Province</a> three days before the election results were announced. The general claimed that the troops were ready take action on a coup.<sup id="cite_ref-123" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-123"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>However, the cabinet spokesperson of the new government stated, during a press conference held on 24 March 2015, that there was no evidence to prove that such a coup was attempted on the night of the election.<sup id="cite_ref-124" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-124"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A spokesman for Rajapaksa has denied the allegations as baseless.<sup id="cite_ref-125" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-125"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-126" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-126"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The army and police also denied the allegations.<sup id="cite_ref-127" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-127"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Prime_Ministerial_candidacy_in_2015">Prime Ministerial candidacy in 2015</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2015_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election" title="2015 Sri Lankan parliamentary election">2015 Sri Lankan parliamentary election</a></div> <p>Rajapaksa unsuccessfully sought to become prime minister again, after losing his third-term presidential bid, in the <a href="/wiki/2015_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election" title="2015 Sri Lankan parliamentary election">2015 parliamentary elections</a>. The position of <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Prime Minister of Sri Lanka">Prime Minister</a> is largely that of a senior member of the cabinet who acts as a deputy to the President. The President directly appoints the Prime Minister, a person "who, in the President's opinion, is most likely to command the confidence of Parliament"; this is usually the leader of the party in power.<sup id="cite_ref-128" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-128"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although Rajapaksa was elected as a Member of Parliament for <a href="/wiki/Kurunegala_Electoral_District" title="Kurunegala Electoral District">Kurunegala</a> with 423,529 preferential votes, his party was defeated in the election by <a href="/wiki/Ranil_Wickremesinghe" title="Ranil Wickremesinghe">Ranil Wickremesinghe</a>'s <a href="/wiki/United_National_Party" title="United National Party">United National Party</a>; Wickremesinghe was appointed as prime minister.<sup id="cite_ref-PM_defeated_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PM_defeated-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-129" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-129"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>128<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Return_to_legislature">Return to legislature</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_former_President_of_Sri_Lanka,_Mr._Mahinda_Rajapaksa_meeting_the_Prime_Minister,_Shri_Narendra_Modi,_in_New_Delhi_on_September_12,_2018.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/The_former_President_of_Sri_Lanka%2C_Mr._Mahinda_Rajapaksa_meeting_the_Prime_Minister%2C_Shri_Narendra_Modi%2C_in_New_Delhi_on_September_12%2C_2018.JPG/220px-The_former_President_of_Sri_Lanka%2C_Mr._Mahinda_Rajapaksa_meeting_the_Prime_Minister%2C_Shri_Narendra_Modi%2C_in_New_Delhi_on_September_12%2C_2018.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="143" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/The_former_President_of_Sri_Lanka%2C_Mr._Mahinda_Rajapaksa_meeting_the_Prime_Minister%2C_Shri_Narendra_Modi%2C_in_New_Delhi_on_September_12%2C_2018.JPG/330px-The_former_President_of_Sri_Lanka%2C_Mr._Mahinda_Rajapaksa_meeting_the_Prime_Minister%2C_Shri_Narendra_Modi%2C_in_New_Delhi_on_September_12%2C_2018.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/The_former_President_of_Sri_Lanka%2C_Mr._Mahinda_Rajapaksa_meeting_the_Prime_Minister%2C_Shri_Narendra_Modi%2C_in_New_Delhi_on_September_12%2C_2018.JPG/440px-The_former_President_of_Sri_Lanka%2C_Mr._Mahinda_Rajapaksa_meeting_the_Prime_Minister%2C_Shri_Narendra_Modi%2C_in_New_Delhi_on_September_12%2C_2018.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2200" data-file-height="1427" /></a><figcaption>Ex. President Rajapaksa meeting Indian Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Narendra_Modi" title="Narendra Modi">Narendra Modi</a> in New Delhi in September 2018</figcaption></figure> <p>Rajapaksa returned to Parliament after his tenure as president, the only former president to do so. He was elected as Member of Parliament for Kurunegala District.<sup id="cite_ref-PM_defeated_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PM_defeated-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 23 January 2015, The <a href="/wiki/Seychelles" title="Seychelles">Seychelles</a> government announced that it would assist the Sri Lankan government in their search for funds that were allegedly transferred by the Rajapaksa regime into Port <a href="/wiki/Victoria,_Seychelles" title="Victoria, Seychelles">Victoria</a> <a href="/wiki/Offshore_bank" title="Offshore bank">offshore bank</a> accounts.<sup id="cite_ref-Seychelles_Investigation_130-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Seychelles_Investigation-130"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In February, India announced that it would assist the Sri Lankan government in tracing billions of dollars that were allegedly deposited into overseas bank accounts belonging to Rajapaksa and associates.<sup id="cite_ref-131" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-131"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The government sought help from the <a href="/wiki/World_Bank" title="World Bank">World Bank</a> and the <a href="/wiki/International_Monetary_Fund" title="International Monetary Fund">International Monetary Fund</a> in locating this hidden wealth to expose the alleged corruption of the previous regime.<sup id="cite_ref-India_to_help_Sri_Lanka_to_trace_billions_stashed_abroad_by_Rajapaksas_132-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-India_to_help_Sri_Lanka_to_trace_billions_stashed_abroad_by_Rajapaksas-132"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 7 May 2015, Foreign Minister <a href="/wiki/Mangala_Samaraweera" title="Mangala Samaraweera">Mangala Samaraweera</a> received intelligence reports from four foreign nations that involved tracing billions of dollars stashed abroad, stating that the Rajapaksa family holds $18 billion (approximate Rs. 238,000,000,000) worth of assets in foreign countries. Minister Samaraweera didn't mention the names of the countries that were involved in this investigation.<sup id="cite_ref-133" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-133"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>132<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The government asserted that they had traced only $2 billion and were seeking access to a bank account that was held by the Rajapaksa family; Minister Samaraweera stated that it would not be an easy task to retrieve the assets held by the Rajapaksa family abroad, and was willing to go after those belonging to the state.<sup id="cite_ref-134" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-134"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>133<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2016, Rajapaksa loyalists created the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Podujana_Peramuna" title="Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna">Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna</a> party in an attempt to split with the SLFP. While Rajapaksa is not officially the leader of the party, the inaugural meeting was held in his political office which had a 15-foot cut-out of Rajapaksa smiling and surrounded by school children. In the courtyard was a banner of similar size showing golden rice fields and Rajapaksa's smiling face at its centre.<sup id="cite_ref-135" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-135"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>134<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rajapaksa adopted a more anti-China policy, opposing major development projects such as the Southern Economic Development Zone, in which China planned to invest over US$5 billion. During the opening ceremony, protesters led by joint opposition MPs ignored a court order banning protests in the area and pelted stones at the event's participants, during which the Chinese envoy claimed that China will ignore "negative forces".<sup id="cite_ref-136" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-136"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>135<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-137" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-137"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>136<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rajapaksa also changed his stance on private medical universities such as the <a href="/wiki/South_Asian_Institute_of_Technology_and_Medicine" title="South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine">South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine</a> (SAITM); during his rule, SAITM was accepted with several concessions from the Board of Investment, and at the request of Rajapaksa, SAITM gave scholarships to students who gained 3As in advanced-level exams. Ten students were given each given Rs. 7 million scholarships by Rajapaksa himself. However, in 2017 he claimed that "there needs to be a standard. The law cannot interfere. If it happens, everyone in this country will try to become doctors," opposing the institution. In reply, Dr Neville Fernando, the chairman of SAITM, called him an opportunist, as the students to whom Rajapaksa had granted scholarships, were then in their final year.<sup id="cite_ref-138" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-138"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>137<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-139" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-139"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>138<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2018_local_election">2018 local election</h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2018_Sri_Lankan_local_elections" title="2018 Sri Lankan local elections">2018 Sri Lankan local elections</a></div> <p>Mahinda Rajapaksa's proxy, <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Podujana_Peramuna" title="Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna">Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna</a> (SLPP), won a landslide victory in the <a href="/wiki/2018_Sri_Lankan_local_elections" title="2018 Sri Lankan local elections">2018 local authority elections</a>. They were able to secure 239 local government bodies out of 340.<sup id="cite_ref-140" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-140"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>139<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-141" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-141"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>140<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The SLPP called for the resignation of the government and for fresh general elections to be held.<sup id="cite_ref-142" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-142"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>141<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-143" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-143"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>142<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2018_constitutional_crisis">2018 constitutional crisis</h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2018_Sri_Lankan_constitutional_crisis" title="2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis">2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis</a></div> <p>On the evening of 26 October 2018, President Maithripala Sirisena appointed Rajapaksa as prime minister after the United People's Freedom Alliance withdrew from the unity government and informed Ranil Wickremesinghe that he was being removed from office. Wickremesinghe refused to accept the dismissal, stating that it was unconstitutional, which resulted in the <a href="/wiki/2018_Sri_Lankan_constitutional_crisis" title="2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis">2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-144" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-144"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>143<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Amid claims that Rajapaksa had failed to secure a majority in Parliament while the crisis was prolonged, Sirisena dissolved Parliament by proclamation on 9 November and called for snap elections. On 11 November 2018, Rajapaksa left the SLFP and joined the SLPP.<sup id="cite_ref-145" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-145"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>144<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The president's proclamation was challenged in the Supreme Court by multiple petitions, the court stayed the proclamation on 12 November, and Parliament met soon after. Rajapaksa faced multiple no-confidence motions, and after a <a href="/wiki/Quo_warranto" title="Quo warranto">quo warranto</a> writ petition filed by 122 MPs against the appointment of Rajapaksa as prime minister and other Ministers, the <a href="/wiki/Court_of_Appeal_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Court of Appeal of Sri Lanka">Court of Appeal</a> issued an interim order on 3 December restraining the functioning of the respondents, Mahinda Rajapaksa as prime minister as well as other cabinet ministers, deputy ministers, and state ministers. The following day, Rajapaksa filed an appeal in the Supreme Court against the interim order.<sup id="cite_ref-146" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-146"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 13 December 2018, the Supreme Court ruled that President Sirisena's decision to dissolve the Parliament 20 months before the end of its term was unconstitutional.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_141218_147-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT_141218-147"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>146<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The following day, the Supreme Court refused to vacate the interim order given by the Court of Appeal restraining Rajapaksa and his cabinet from functioning. The next day, 15 December, Rajapaksa publicly resigned from the post of prime minister.<sup id="cite_ref-148" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-148"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>147<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Leader_of_the_Opposition_2">Leader of the Opposition</h3></div> <p>On 18 December 2018, the Speaker of Parliament, <a href="/wiki/Karu_Jayasuriya" title="Karu Jayasuriya">Karu Jayasuriya</a>, announced that Mahinda Rajapaksa had been appointed as <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Opposition_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Leader of the Opposition (Sri Lanka)">Leader of the Opposition</a>, with the UPFA joining the opposition benches in Parliament. He replaced <a href="/wiki/R._Sampanthan" title="R. Sampanthan">R. Sampanthan</a>, who was the leader of the <a href="/wiki/Tamil_National_Alliance" title="Tamil National Alliance">Tamil National Alliance</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-149" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-149"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>148<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Prime_Minister_(2019–2022)"><span id="Prime_Minister_.282019.E2.80.932022.29"></span>Prime Minister (2019–2022)</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1246091330">.mw-parser-output .sidebar{width:22em;float:right;clear:right;margin:0.5em 0 1em 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culture</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content plainlist" style="text-align:mid"><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Authoritarianism" title="Authoritarianism">Authoritarianism</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bribery_in_Sri_Lanka&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bribery in Sri Lanka (page does not exist)">Bribery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Sri_Lanka" class="mw-redirect" title="Censorship in Sri Lanka">Censorship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corruption_in_Sri_Lanka" title="Corruption in Sri Lanka">Corruption</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cronyism_in_Sri_Lanka&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cronyism in Sri Lanka (page does not exist)"> Cronyism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enforced_disappearances_in_Sri_Lanka" title="Enforced disappearances in Sri Lanka">Enforced disappearances</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Extrajudicial_killings_in_Sri_Lanka&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Extrajudicial killings in Sri Lanka (page does not exist)">Extrajudicial killings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fake_news" title="Fake news">Fake news</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gender_inequality_in_Sri_Lanka" title="Gender inequality in Sri Lanka">Gender inequality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hate_speech" title="Hate speech">Hate speech</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Impunity" title="Impunity">Impunity</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kleptocracy_in_Sri_Lanka&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kleptocracy in Sri Lanka (page does not exist)">Kleptocracy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nepotism_in_Sri_Lanka" class="mw-redirect" title="Nepotism in Sri Lanka">Nepotism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_political_families_in_Sri_Lanka" title="List of political families in Sri Lanka">Political dynasties</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_and_state_terrorism" title="Sri Lanka and state terrorism">State terrorism</a></li></ul> </div></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Pre-2022 political instabilty</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content plainlist" style="text-align:mid"><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2015_Sri_Lankan_presidential_election" title="2015 Sri Lankan presidential election">2015 presidential election</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2015_alleged_Sri_Lankan_coup_attempt" title="2015 alleged Sri Lankan coup attempt">coup attempt</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election" title="2015 Sri Lankan parliamentary election">2015 parliamentary election</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/15th_Parliament_of_Sri_Lanka" title="15th Parliament of Sri Lanka">15th parliament (Yahapalana Government)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Bank_of_Sri_Lanka_bond_scandal" title="Central Bank of Sri Lanka bond scandal">Central Bank bond scandal</a></li> <li>anti-Muslim riots <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2018_anti-Muslim_riots_in_Sri_Lanka" title="2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka">2018</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_anti-Muslim_riots_in_Sri_Lanka" title="2019 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka">2019</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_Sri_Lankan_constitutional_crisis" title="2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis">2018 constitutional crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Sri_Lanka_Easter_bombings" title="2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings">2019 Easter bombings</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Sri_Lankan_presidential_election" title="2019 Sri Lankan presidential election">2019 presidential election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2020_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election" title="2020 Sri Lankan parliamentary election">2020 parliamentary election</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/16th_Parliament_of_Sri_Lanka" title="16th Parliament of Sri Lanka">16th parliament</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></div></div></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_economic_crisis_(2019%E2%80%93present)" title="Sri Lankan economic crisis (2019–present)">Economic crisis (2019–present)</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Causes</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content plainlist" style="text-align:mid"><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Sri_Lanka" title="COVID-19 pandemic in Sri Lanka">COVID-19 pandemic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_economic_crisis_(2019%E2%80%93present)#Tax_cuts_and_money_creation" title="Sri Lankan economic crisis (2019–present)">Tax cuts and money creation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gotabaya_Rajapaksa#Agricultural_catastrophe" title="Gotabaya Rajapaksa">Agricultural catastrophe</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sri_Lankan_foreign_exchange_crisis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sri Lankan foreign exchange crisis (page does not exist)">Foreign exchange crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" title="Russian invasion of Ukraine">Russian invasion of Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Global_energy_crisis_(2021%E2%80%932023)" title="Global energy crisis (2021–2023)">Global energy crisis</a></li></ul> </div></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Effects</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content plainlist" style="text-align:mid"><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2022_Sri_Lankan_political_crisis" title="2022 Sri Lankan political crisis">Political crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_and_the_International_Monetary_Fund" title="Sri Lanka and the International Monetary Fund">IMF loan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poverty_in_Sri_Lanka" title="Poverty in Sri Lanka">Poverty</a></li></ul> </div></div></div></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> <a href="/wiki/2022_Sri_Lankan_political_crisis" title="2022 Sri Lankan political crisis">Political crisis (2022–present)</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Opponents & demands</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content plainlist" style="text-align:mid"><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><b>Opponents</b></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rajapaksa_family" title="Rajapaksa family">Rajapaksa family</a> & <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Podujana_Peramuna" title="Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna">SLPP</a> politicians</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ranil_Wickremesinghe" title="Ranil Wickremesinghe">Ranil Wickremesinghe</a> & <a href="/wiki/United_National_Party" title="United National Party">UNP</a> politicians</li></ul> <ul><li><b>Demands</b></li></ul> <p>1. Resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa 2. Accountability for corruption 3. Economic reforms 4. Access to essential services 5. Political reforms 6. Youth participation </p> </div></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/2022_Sri_Lankan_protests" title="2022 Sri Lankan protests">Protests</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content plainlist" style="text-align:mid"><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_Galle_Face" class="mw-redirect" title="Occupy Galle Face">Occupy Galle Face</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gotagogama" class="mw-redirect" title="Gotagogama">Gotagogama</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_Sri_Lankan_protests#Mynagogama" title="2022 Sri Lankan protests">Mynagogama</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_Sri_Lankan_protests#Black_Monday_attacks_on_protesters" title="2022 Sri Lankan protests">Black Monday attacks on protesters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_Sri_Lankan_protests#Resignation_of_Mahinda_Rajapaksa" title="2022 Sri Lankan protests">Resignation of Mahinda Rajapaksa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_Sri_Lankan_protests#9_July:_Storming_of_President's_House" title="2022 Sri Lankan protests">Storming of President's House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exile_of_Gotabaya_Rajapaksa" title="Exile of Gotabaya Rajapaksa">Flight & Exile of Gotabaya Rajapaksa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_Sri_Lankan_protests#Departures_to_foreign_states" title="2022 Sri Lankan protests">Flight of Rajapaksa family and associates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ranil_Wickremesinghe#Crackdown_on_anti-government_protests" title="Ranil Wickremesinghe">Crackdown on protests</a></li></ul> </div></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Government overthrow</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content plainlist" style="text-align:mid"><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/16th_Parliament_of_Sri_Lanka" title="16th Parliament of Sri Lanka">16th Parliament</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gotabaya_Rajapaksa#Presidency_(2019–2022)" title="Gotabaya Rajapaksa">Rajapaksa Administration</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/First_Gotabaya_Rajapaksa_cabinet" title="First Gotabaya Rajapaksa cabinet">Rajapaksa cabinet I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Gotabaya_Rajapaksa_cabinet" title="Second Gotabaya Rajapaksa cabinet">II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_Gotabaya_Rajapaksa_cabinet" title="Third Gotabaya Rajapaksa cabinet">III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fourth_Gotabaya_Rajapaksa_cabinet" title="Fourth Gotabaya Rajapaksa cabinet">IV</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_Sri_Lankan_presidential_election" title="2022 Sri Lankan presidential election">2022 Presidential election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ranil_Wickremesinghe#Presidency_(2022–2024)" title="Ranil Wickremesinghe">Wickremesinghe Administration</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wickremesinghe_cabinet" title="Wickremesinghe cabinet">Wickremesinghe cabinet</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Elections of 2024</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content plainlist" style="text-align:mid"><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2024_Sri_Lankan_presidential_election" title="2024 Sri Lankan presidential election">2024 Presidential</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/First_Dissanayake_cabinet" title="First Dissanayake cabinet">Dissanayake cabinet</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election" title="2024 Sri Lankan parliamentary election">2024 parliamentary</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/17th_Parliament_of_Sri_Lanka" title="17th Parliament of Sri Lanka">17th Parliament</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Elpitiya_Pradeshiya_Sabha_election" title="2024 Elpitiya Pradeshiya Sabha election">2024 Elpitiya</a></li></ul> </div></div></div></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> Legacy</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Legacy</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content plainlist" style="text-align:mid"><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Art_of_the_Aragalaya&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Art of the Aragalaya (page does not exist)">Art of the Aragalaya</a></li></ul> </div></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-below hlist" style="border-top:#aaa 1px solid; border-bottom:#aaa 1px solid;"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><span class="mw-image-border noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:A_coloured_voting_box.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/01/A_coloured_voting_box.svg/16px-A_coloured_voting_box.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/01/A_coloured_voting_box.svg/24px-A_coloured_voting_box.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/01/A_coloured_voting_box.svg/32px-A_coloured_voting_box.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="160" data-file-height="160" /></a></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Portal:Politics" title="Portal:Politics">Politics</a></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="mw-image-border noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="flag" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Flag_of_Sri_Lanka.svg/16px-Flag_of_Sri_Lanka.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Flag_of_Sri_Lanka.svg/24px-Flag_of_Sri_Lanka.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Flag_of_Sri_Lanka.svg/32px-Flag_of_Sri_Lanka.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Portal:Sri_Lanka" title="Portal:Sri Lanka">Sri Lanka</a></li></ul></td></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239400231">.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:inline;font-size:88%;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .navbar-collapse{float:left;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .navbar-boxtext{word-spacing:0}.mw-parser-output .navbar ul{display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;line-height:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::before{margin-right:-0.125em;content:"[ "}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::after{margin-left:-0.125em;content:" ]"}.mw-parser-output .navbar li{word-spacing:-0.125em}.mw-parser-output .navbar a>span,.mw-parser-output .navbar a>abbr{text-decoration:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-mini abbr{font-variant:small-caps;border-bottom:none;text-decoration:none;cursor:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-full{font-size:114%;margin:0 7em}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-mini{font-size:114%;margin:0 4em}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}@media(prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}}@media print{.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:none!important}}</style><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Aragalaya" title="Template:Aragalaya"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Aragalaya" title="Template talk:Aragalaya"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Aragalaya" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Aragalaya"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The Rajapaksa family regained power in the <a href="/wiki/2019_Sri_Lankan_presidential_election" title="2019 Sri Lankan presidential election">2019 presidential election</a> that November, when his younger brother and former wartime defence chief <a href="/wiki/Gotabaya_Rajapaksa" title="Gotabaya Rajapaksa">Gotabaya Rajapaksa</a> won the election and was sworn in as the new president of Sri Lanka.<sup id="cite_ref-150" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-150"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>149<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-151" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-151"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>150<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Their firm grip of power was consolidated in <a href="/wiki/2020_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election" title="2020 Sri Lankan parliamentary election">parliamentary elections</a> in August 2020. The family's political party Sri Lanka People's Front (known by its Sinhala initials SLPP) got a landslide victory and a clear majority in the parliament. Five members of the Rajapaksa family won seats in the parliament. Mahinda Rajapaksa became the new prime minister.<sup id="cite_ref-152" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-152"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Rajapaksa family was targeted during the <a href="/wiki/2022_Sri_Lankan_protests" title="2022 Sri Lankan protests">2022 Sri Lankan protests</a> as their mismanagement and corruption was blamed for the destruction of the Sri Lankan economy, creating an economic crisis that caused Sri Lanka to default on its foreign debt for the first time in its history since independence.<sup id="cite_ref-153" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-153"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>152<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-154" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-154"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>153<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mahinda was called Myna by the protesters who established MynaGoGama protest site outside his official residence at temple trees.<sup id="cite_ref-155" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-155"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>154<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-156" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-156"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>155<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 3 May 2022, opposition leaders declared a <a href="/wiki/Motion_of_no_confidence" title="Motion of no confidence">motion of no confidence</a> aimed at Rajapaksa and his cabinet, in an attempt to remove him from power.<sup id="cite_ref-ABCNews2022_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ABCNews2022-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 9 May 2022, Rajapaksa loyalists were transported to his residence on buses who were then addressed by Rajapaksa. The loyalists were then armed with iron bars and assaulted unarmed protesters near Temple Trees and destroyed MynaGoGama. The Rajapaksa loyalists then travelled to Galle Face where they assaulted protesters and burned down their tents.<sup id="cite_ref-157" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-157"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>156<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-158" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-158"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>157<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>With the uprising of <a href="/wiki/2022_Sri_Lankan_protests" title="2022 Sri Lankan protests">violent clashes</a> and unstable situations in the country, Prime Minister Rajapaksa resigned from his post on 9 May 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-159" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-159"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>158<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The following day a <a href="/wiki/Gazette" title="Gazette">gazette</a> was released confirming Mahinda Rajapaksa's resignation from the post as prime minister.<sup id="cite_ref-160" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-160"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>159<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 10 May 2022, Rajapaksa and his family members fled to Trincomalee navy base for security reasons. This was confirmed by the ministry of defence on 11 May 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-161" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-161"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>160<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-162" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-162"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>161<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The opposition and protestors called for the arrest of Mahinda Rajapaksa for inciting violence against peaceful protesters. Protests erupted demanding the arrest of Rajapaksa and loyalists responsible for the attacks.<sup id="cite_ref-163" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-163"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>162<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-164" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-164"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>163<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rajapaksa didn’t stand for re-election in <a href="/wiki/2024_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election" title="2024 Sri Lankan parliamentary election">2024</a>, following the humiliating defeat of SLPP candidate, <a href="/wiki/Namal_Rajapaksa" title="Namal Rajapaksa">Namal Rajapaksa</a> in <a href="/wiki/2024_Sri_Lankan_presidential_election" title="2024 Sri Lankan presidential election">2024 presidential election</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-165" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-165"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>164<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Conviction_of_economic_mismanagement">Conviction of economic mismanagement</h2></div> <p>On 14 November 2023, Rajapaksa, his brothers Gotabaya, Basil and other senior officials were found guilty of economic mismanagement between 2019 and 2022 by the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Supreme Court of Sri Lanka">Supreme Court of Sri Lanka</a>, which stated that the respondents breached the fundamental rights to equal protection of the law in terms of Article 12(1) of the Constitution in a fundamental rights petition filed by Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL) and four other activists. The court also ordered Rajapaksa and the other respondents to pay about $450 (150,000 rupees) in legal costs to the petitioners.<sup id="cite_ref-166" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-166"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>165<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-167" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-167"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>166<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-168" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-168"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>167<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The following day, Rajapaksa stated in <a href="/wiki/Kandy" title="Kandy">Kandy</a> that he will not accept the court’s judgement.<sup id="cite_ref-169" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-169"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>168<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Controversies_and_criticism">Controversies and criticism</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Corruption">Corruption</h3></div> <p>Rajapaksa's governments have been criticised for their corruption. During his leadership, Sri Lanka scored extremely low in the <a href="/wiki/Transparency_International" title="Transparency International">Transparency International</a> Corruption Index. A Transparency International-led coalition revealed Rs. 3,000,000,000 had gone missing from a road project for a 2012 exhibition.<sup id="cite_ref-170" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-170"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>169<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rajapaksa was being investigated by the Presidential Commission of Inquiry to Investigate and Inquire into Serious Acts of Fraud, Corruption and Abuse of Power, State Resources and Privileges (PRECIFAC) over alleged financial losses incurred by the state-run <a href="/wiki/Independent_Television_Network" title="Independent Television Network">Independent Television Network</a> (ITN) due to his campaign's failure to pay for advertisements broadcast during Rajapaksa's <a href="/wiki/2015_Sri_Lankan_presidential_election#Misuse_of_state_resources" title="2015 Sri Lankan presidential election">2015 presidential election campaign</a> and also over the appointment of the ITN Chairman in September 2014. However, Rajapaksa has accused the PRECIFAC of being unconstitutional, and Rajapaksa's lawyers objected to its composition.<sup id="cite_ref-171" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-171"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>170<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-172" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-172"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>171<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 16 January 2015, The <a href="/wiki/First_Sirisena_cabinet" title="First Sirisena cabinet">Sirisena government</a> announced that it would investigate Rajapaksa's deals with China and other countries that allegedly included kickbacks and mega-project deals. Furthermore, the government stated that the deals would be suspended until the investigations were completed.<sup id="cite_ref-173" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-173"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>172<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Janatha_Vimukthi_Peramuna" title="Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna">Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna</a> (JVP) announced that they had filed corruption charges against the Rajapaksa brothers at the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Bribery_and_Corruption_Commission&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bribery and Corruption Commission (page does not exist)">Bribery and Corruption Commission</a> and demanded that 11 individuals and an institution be investigated for massive corruption.<sup id="cite_ref-174" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-174"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>173<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Meanwhile, MP <a href="/wiki/Mervyn_Silva" title="Mervyn Silva">Mervyn Silva</a> also filed corruption charges against Mahinda's brothers, Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Basil Rajapaksa. Silva criticised former Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa for <a href="/wiki/Gotabaya_Rajapaksa#Alleged_human_rights_violations" title="Gotabaya Rajapaksa">human rights violations</a> and the death of <a href="/wiki/Lasantha_Wickrematunge" title="Lasantha Wickrematunge">Lasantha Wickrematunge</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-175" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-175"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>174<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Anti-Corruption Unit led by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe included a high-powered "rapid response team" to look into corrupt land transactions, stock market price-fixing, and the abuse of state funds for political purposes by the Rajapaksa family and the close associates of Mahinda Rajapaksa.<sup id="cite_ref-India_to_help_Sri_Lanka_to_trace_billions_stashed_abroad_by_Rajapaksas_132-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-India_to_help_Sri_Lanka_to_trace_billions_stashed_abroad_by_Rajapaksas-132"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Air_Force" title="Sri Lanka Air Force">Sri Lanka Air Force</a> announced that Mahinda Rajapaksa and his <a href="/wiki/Rajapaksa_family" title="Rajapaksa family">family</a> had used military aircraft for the Presidential election campaign, using $17,300 (Rs. 2,278,000) of public funds to travel across the island.<sup id="cite_ref-176" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-176"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>175<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rajapaksa and his family were the subjects of numerous <a href="/wiki/Public_resources" class="mw-redirect" title="Public resources">state resource abuse</a> complaints from organizations and election monitors, including claims of their involvement in fraud, misuse of powers, murder, and money-laundering activities that are said to have taken $5.31 billion (Rs. 700 billion) out of the country illegally through the Central Bank using Rajapaksa's close association with <a href="/wiki/Ajith_Nivard_Cabraal" class="mw-redirect" title="Ajith Nivard Cabraal">Ajith Nivard Cabraal</a>, the former governor of the <a href="/wiki/Central_Bank_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Central Bank of Sri Lanka">Central Bank of Sri Lanka</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-177" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-177"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>176<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-178" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-178"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>177<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Abduction_and_assault_of_Keith_Noyahr">Abduction and assault of Keith Noyahr</h3></div> <p>In August 2018, Rajapaksa was questioned at his official residence in Colombo by the <a href="/wiki/Criminal_Investigation_Department_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Criminal Investigation Department (Sri Lanka)">Criminal Investigations Department</a> (CID) in connection with the abduction and assault of journalist and former associate editor of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Nation_(Sri_Lanka)" title="The Nation (Sri Lanka)">The Nation</a></i> Keith Noyahr in 2008.<sup id="cite_ref-179" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-179"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>178<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The CID detectives questioned Rajapaksa about a phone call from <a href="/wiki/Karu_Jayasuriya" title="Karu Jayasuriya">Karu Jayasuriya</a> and the then-editor of <i>The Nation</i> newspaper, Lalith Alahakoon, to Rajapaksa, after which Noyahr was released. Rajapaksa had said that he did not recall receiving a phone call, and claimed the case was political revenge.<sup id="cite_ref-180" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-180"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>179<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Noyahr was abducted and severely assaulted before being released in May 2008, after which he fled to Australia with his family, fearing for his life.<sup id="cite_ref-181" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-181"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>180<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-182" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-182"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>181<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Nepotism">Nepotism</h3></div> <p>Rajapaksa has been accused of nepotism, appointing three brothers to run important ministries and giving other political positions to relatives, regardless of their merit. The Rajapaksas held the offices of the ministries of <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Finance_and_Planning_(Sri_Lanka)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ministry of Finance and Planning (Sri Lanka)">finance and planning</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Defence_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Ministry of Defence (Sri Lanka)">defence</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Ports_and_Aviation_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Ministry of Ports and Aviation (Sri Lanka)">ports and aviation</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Highways_and_Road_Development_(Sri_Lanka)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ministry of Highways and Road Development (Sri Lanka)">highways and road development</a>. Appointments have included his brother, Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, who was given the post of <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Defence_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Ministry of Defence (Sri Lanka)">Defence Secretary</a> without holding any elections for the post; he controlled the armed forces, the police, and the Coast Guard, and was in charge of immigration and emigration. Rajapaksa appointed another brother, <a href="/wiki/Basil_Rajapaksa" title="Basil Rajapaksa">Basil Rajapaksa</a>, as minister of Economic Development. His oldest brother, <a href="/wiki/Chamal_Rajapaksa" title="Chamal Rajapaksa">Chamal Rajapaksa</a>, was appointed the <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_Parliament_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka">Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka</a> from 2010 to 2015. The Rajapaksa family controlled over 70% of Sri Lanka's budget during their governance.<sup id="cite_ref-183" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-183"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>182<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_184-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-184"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>183<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Other appointees include his nephew, <a href="/wiki/Shashindra_Rajapaksa" class="mw-redirect" title="Shashindra Rajapaksa">Shashindra Rajapaksa</a>, who served as the <a href="/wiki/List_of_Chief_Ministers_of_Uva" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Chief Ministers of Uva">Chief minister of Uva</a> from 2009 to 2015. Some of his cousins were given ambassadorial positions: <a href="/wiki/Jaliya_Wickramasuriya" title="Jaliya Wickramasuriya">Jaliya Wickramasuriya</a> was appointed as Sri Lanka's ambassador to the United States, and <a href="/wiki/Udayanga_Weeratunga" title="Udayanga Weeratunga">Udayanga Weeratunga</a> was appointed as the ambassador to Russia. Dozens of nephews, nieces, cousins and in-laws have also been appointed as heads of banks, boards, and corporations.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_184-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-184"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>183<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rajapaksa has a long history of denying allegations that are levelled against his family members and political associations. He is also widely accused of using his family members for government duties, claims he has rejected.<sup id="cite_ref-185" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-185"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>184<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Media_freedom">Media freedom</h3></div> <p>Media groups have alleged that media freedom was curtailed in Sri Lanka during Rajapaksa's terms as president.<sup id="cite_ref-186" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-186"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>185<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2008, <a href="/wiki/Reporters_Without_Borders" title="Reporters Without Borders">Reporters Without Borders</a> ranked Sri Lanka 165th among 173 countries in its annual Worldwide <a href="/wiki/Press_Freedom_Index" class="mw-redirect" title="Press Freedom Index">Press Freedom Index</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-187" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-187"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>186<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The next year, the country was ranked 162. By 2010, following the end of the war, the RSF ranking was 158th. These rankings have been questioned by independent Sri Lanka newspapers. </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>RSF's 2010 Press Freedom Index has Sri Lanka at number 158, nearly tied with Saudi Arabia. This makes the rankings somewhat suspect. In Saudi Arabia, all newspapers are owned by the royal family or their associates. All TV and radio stations are government-owned. Saudi journalists are forbidden by law to criticise the royal family or religious authorities and writers and bloggers are routinely arrested. Sri Lanka is obviously not this bad.</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>Indi Samarajiva, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Sunday_Leader" title="The Sunday Leader">The Sunday Leader</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-188" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-188"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>187<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></cite></div></blockquote> <p>A total of 17 journalists and media workers were killed during Rajapaksa's presidency.<sup id="cite_ref-189" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-189"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>188<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-190" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-190"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>189<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ethnic_relations">Ethnic relations</h3></div> <p>Rajapaksa's policies on ethnic relations were mixed. The content of the president's historic speech in <a href="/wiki/Tamil_language" title="Tamil language">Tamil</a> at the UN was an effort to establish that he is a people's leader, representing all the peoples of Sri Lanka, including the Tamil minority. </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>While my mother tongue is Sinhala, let me elaborate a few thoughts in Tamil. Sinhala and Tamil are the two languages of the people of Sri Lanka. Both these have been used through the centuries, are rich in literature, and are widely used in my country, with recognition as Official Languages.<sup id="cite_ref-MRS_191-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MRS-191"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>190<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>He added, in Tamil, </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>With the widening of democracy in our country, the bonds between the Sinhala and Tamil people of Sri Lanka will grow stronger and remain a major force for its future development. We will march towards a richer freedom and lasting unity that await us as a nation.<sup id="cite_ref-MRS_191-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MRS-191"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>190<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>At the same time, he took no action against Sinhala Buddhist extremists,<sup id="cite_ref-192" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-192"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>191<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and his brother, Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, was accused of supporting the extremist <a href="/wiki/Bodu_Bala_Sena" title="Bodu Bala Sena">Bodu Bala Sena</a> but later distanced himself from the organization, accusing it of being a "Western conspiracy".<sup id="cite_ref-193" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-193"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>192<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-194" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-194"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>193<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>President Rajapaksa also imposed an unofficial ban on the Tamil version of the Sri Lankan anthem,<sup id="cite_ref-195" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-195"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>194<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which has existed since 1948 and has been sung at various events including the 1949 Independence Day.<sup id="cite_ref-196" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-196"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>195<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> State administrators in Tamil-speaking regions blocked the Tamil version of the anthem and in some cases used security forces to disrupt events.<sup id="cite_ref-197" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-197"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>196<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He continued to stand against the Tamil version of the anthem and slammed his successors for removing the ban and singing it again on Independence Day, claiming that the "national anthem should be sung in one language and not two or three languages"; the Pro-Rajapaksa <a href="/wiki/Joint_Opposition_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Joint Opposition (Sri Lanka)">Joint Opposition</a> also boycotted the event.<sup id="cite_ref-198" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-198"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>197<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sanctions">Sanctions</h2></div> <p>He was sanctioned by the Canadian government for the <i>gross and systematic violations of human rights</i> committed during the civil war between the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Government of Sri Lanka">Government of Sri Lanka</a> and the militant organization <a href="/wiki/Liberation_Tigers_of_Tamil_Eelam" title="Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam">Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam</a> from 1983 to 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-199" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-199"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>198<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life_and_family">Personal life and family</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Rajapaksa_family" title="Rajapaksa family">Rajapaksa family</a></div> <p>Rajapaksa was born Percy Mahendra Rajapaksa,<sup id="cite_ref-ft1_16-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ft1-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in <a href="/wiki/Weeraketiya" title="Weeraketiya">Weeraketiya</a>, in the rural southern <a href="/wiki/Districts_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Districts of Sri Lanka">district</a> of <a href="/wiki/Hambantota" title="Hambantota">Hambantota</a> to an established <a href="/wiki/Rajapaksa_family" title="Rajapaksa family">political family</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-pres-profile_15-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pres-profile-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His father, <a href="/wiki/D._A._Rajapaksa" title="D. A. Rajapaksa">D. A. Rajapaksa</a>, had succeeded his brother <a href="/wiki/D._M._Rajapaksa" title="D. M. Rajapaksa">D. M. Rajapaksa</a>'s seat in the <a href="/wiki/State_Council_of_Ceylon" title="State Council of Ceylon">State Council of Ceylon</a> following the latter's death in May 1945. D. M. Rajapaksa had started wearing the earthy brown shawl to represent <i>kurakkan</i> (<a href="/wiki/Finger_millet" title="Finger millet">finger millet</a>), which was cultivated by the people of his area; he championed their cause throughout his life. In later years Mahinda Rajapaksa would follow his uncle's example and wear a similar characteristic shawl. D. A. Rajapaksa, went on to serve as the member of parliament from Beliatta from 1947 to 1965, and served as Cabinet Minister of Agriculture and Land in <a href="/wiki/Wijeyananda_Dahanayake" title="Wijeyananda Dahanayake">Wijeyananda Dahanayake</a>'s government.<sup id="cite_ref-pres-profile_15-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pres-profile-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His mother Dona Dandina Samarasinghe Dissanayake was from Palatuwa, <a href="/wiki/Matara,_Sri_Lanka" title="Matara, Sri Lanka">Matara</a>. He was the second eldest of nine chidden in the family which included six boys and three girls. His elder siblings are <a href="/wiki/Chamal_Rajapaksa" title="Chamal Rajapaksa">Chamal</a>, Jayanthi and younger siblings were Tudor, <a href="/wiki/Gotabaya_Rajapaksa" title="Gotabaya Rajapaksa">Gotabaya</a>, <a href="/wiki/Basil_Rajapaksa" title="Basil Rajapaksa">Basil</a>, Preethi, Dudley and Gandini.<sup id="cite_ref-ft1_16-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ft1-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Several members of Rajapaksa's family are currently active in politics.<sup id="cite_ref-200" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-200"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>199<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most notable is his brother, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the former <a href="/wiki/President_of_Sri_Lanka" title="President of Sri Lanka">president of Sri Lanka</a> and a former secretary for the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Defence_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Ministry of Defence (Sri Lanka)">Ministry of Defence</a>. His career in the Ministry of Defence ended at the same time as Mahinda Rajapaksa's presidency, on 9 January 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-201" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-201"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>200<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another brother, Basil Rajapaksa, was elected to the Parliament of Sri Lanka from the <a href="/wiki/Gampaha_District" title="Gampaha District">Gampaha District</a> in April 2010. He was later appointed <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Economic_Development_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Ministry of Economic Development (Sri Lanka)">Minister of Economic Development</a>. Basil was arrested in April 2015 on corruption charges.<sup id="cite_ref-202" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-202"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>201<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He served as <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Finance_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Minister of Finance (Sri Lanka)">minister of finance of Sri Lanka</a> from 2021 to 2022 until his resignation amidst the <a href="/wiki/2022_Sri_Lankan_protests" title="2022 Sri Lankan protests">2022 Sri Lankan anti-government protests</a> Mahinda Rajapaksa's eldest brother, <a href="/wiki/Chamal_Rajapaksa" title="Chamal Rajapaksa">Chamal Rajapaksa</a>, has been an MP since 1989. He was elected <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_Parliament_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka">Speaker</a> of the <a href="/wiki/14th_Sri_Lankan_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="14th Sri Lankan Parliament">14th Parliament of Sri Lanka</a>. Other family members involved in politics include his nephew, <a href="/wiki/Shashindra_Rajapaksa" class="mw-redirect" title="Shashindra Rajapaksa">Shashindra Rajapaksa</a>, the Chief Minister of <a href="/wiki/Uva_Province" title="Uva Province">Uva Province</a>. Shameendra Rajapaksa, another nephew, is the director of <a href="/wiki/SriLankan_Airlines" title="SriLankan Airlines">SriLankan Airlines</a>. His cousin <a href="/wiki/Jaliya_Wickramasuriya" title="Jaliya Wickramasuriya">Jaliya Wickramasuriya</a> is Sri Lanka's ambassador to the United States. His cousin <a href="/wiki/Udayanga_Weeratunga" title="Udayanga Weeratunga">Udayanga Weeratunga</a> is Sri Lanka's ambassador to Russia. <a href="/wiki/Prasanna_Wickramasuriya" title="Prasanna Wickramasuriya">Prasanna Wickramasuriya</a>, another cousin, is chairman of Airport & Aviation Services. Rajapaksa's brother-in-law, Nishantha Wickramasinghe, is the chairman of <a href="/wiki/SriLankan_Airlines" title="SriLankan Airlines">SriLankan Airlines</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-atimes.com_203-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-atimes.com-203"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>202<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1983, Rajapaksa married Shiranthi Wickremesinghe, a child psychologist and educator. Shiranthi Rajapaksa is the daughter of <a href="/wiki/Commander_(Royal_Navy)" title="Commander (Royal Navy)">Commander</a> <a href="/wiki/E._P._Wickremasinghe" title="E. P. Wickremasinghe">E. P. Wickremasinghe</a>, of the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Navy" title="Sri Lanka Navy">Sri Lanka Navy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-204" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-204"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>203<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Rajapaksas have three sons: <a href="/wiki/Namal_Rajapaksa" title="Namal Rajapaksa">Namal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yoshitha_Rajapaksa" title="Yoshitha Rajapaksa">Yoshitha</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Rohitha_Rajapaksa" title="Rohitha Rajapaksa">Rohitha</a>. In April 2010, Namal Rajapaksa was elected as a Member of Parliament for the Hambantota District, obtaining the highest number of preferential votes in his father's former district. Namal was again elected to Parliament by obtaining the most votes from the Hambantota district in the 2015 General Elections. Yoshitha Rajapaksa was commissioned as an <a href="/wiki/Sub-Lieutenant#Acting_sub-lieutenant" class="mw-redirect" title="Sub-Lieutenant">Acting Sub Lieutenant</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Navy" title="Sri Lanka Navy">Sri Lanka Navy</a> in March 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-205" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-205"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>204<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Mahinda Rajapaksa is superstitious; he wears talismans and consults astrologers in his decision-making.<sup id="cite_ref-206" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-206"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>205<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is known for acquiring a large number of valuable rings as lucky charms, some with colored stones and elephant hair. This has earned him the nickname "lord of the rings". During a wedding, which Rajapaksa attended as a VIP guest, he lost a gem-studded ring. After covertly searching under carpets and in washrooms, hotel staff found the ring on the floor near the VIP table.<sup id="cite_ref-207" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-207"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>206<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-208" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-208"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>207<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Public_image">Public image</h2></div> <p>Rajapaksa was considered to be the most popular Sri Lankan politician of his time.<sup id="cite_ref-209" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-209"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>208<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, Rajapaksa is accused of creating a <a href="/wiki/Cult_of_personality" title="Cult of personality">cult of personality</a> around himself, using the civil war victory and Sinhala chauvinism. He was referred as a "King" by some of his supporters, and he used the media to portray himself as a strong man.<sup id="cite_ref-210" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-210"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>209<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-211" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-211"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>210<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-212" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-212"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>211<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During his time in power, his pictures were shown on buses, billboards, and all forms of media. Television ads where songs were sung by school children in his rallies would hail him as "our father" and "father of the country". Rajapaksa also printed his picture on currency and named the budget airline <a href="/wiki/Mihin_Lanka" title="Mihin Lanka">Mihin Lanka</a> after himself.<sup id="cite_ref-Name_your_price_213-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Name_your_price-213"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>212<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-214" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-214"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>213<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-215" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-215"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>214<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rajapaksa thought having his name in the sky would bring him good fortune.<sup id="cite_ref-Name_your_price_213-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Name_your_price-213"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>212<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 2022 the popularity of the Rajapaksas had declined and during the <a href="/wiki/2022_Sri_Lankan_protests" title="2022 Sri Lankan protests">2022 Sri Lankan Protests</a> protesters named him "<a href="/wiki/Myna" title="Myna">Myna</a>" as an insulting nickname and demanded his resignation alongside the entire Rajapaksa family.<sup id="cite_ref-216" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-216"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>215<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Mattala_Rajapaksa_International_Airport" title="Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport">Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport</a>, <a href="/wiki/Magampura_Mahinda_Rajapaksa_Port" class="mw-redirect" title="Magampura Mahinda Rajapaksa Port">Magampura Mahinda Rajapaksa Port</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nelum_Pokuna_Mahinda_Rajapaksa_Theatre" title="Nelum Pokuna Mahinda Rajapaksa Theatre">Nelum Pokuna Mahinda Rajapaksa Theatre</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Mahinda_Rajapaksa_International_Stadium" class="mw-redirect" title="Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium">Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium</a> were all high-profile lavish infrastructure projects initiated by Rajapaksa during his administration and named for him.<sup id="cite_ref-217" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-217"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>216<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thus, critics have accused Rajapaksa of being <a href="/wiki/Narcissism" title="Narcissism">narcissistic</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-218" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-218"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>217<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-219" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-219"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>218<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-220" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-220"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>219<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Honours">Honours</h2></div> <ul><li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Star_of_Palestine_(Palestine)_Ribbon.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/The_Star_of_Palestine_%28Palestine%29_Ribbon.svg/30px-The_Star_of_Palestine_%28Palestine%29_Ribbon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/The_Star_of_Palestine_%28Palestine%29_Ribbon.svg/45px-The_Star_of_Palestine_%28Palestine%29_Ribbon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/The_Star_of_Palestine_%28Palestine%29_Ribbon.svg/60px-The_Star_of_Palestine_%28Palestine%29_Ribbon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1060" data-file-height="300" /></a></span> <b>2014</b>: <a href="/wiki/Decorations,_medals_and_badges_of_Palestine#Decorations" class="mw-redirect" title="Decorations, medals and badges of Palestine">Star of Palestine</a><sup id="cite_ref-221" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-221"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>220<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nalanda_College,_Colombo#Awards" title="Nalanda College, Colombo">Nalanda Keerthi Sri</a> award in 2004 by his alma mater, Nalanda College.<sup id="cite_ref-222" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-222"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>221<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>three honorary doctorates. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Doctor_of_Law" title="Doctor of Law">Doctor of Law</a> from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Colombo" title="University of Colombo">University of Colombo</a> on 6 September 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-223" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-223"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>222<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>by the <a href="/wiki/Peoples%27_Friendship_University_of_Russia" class="mw-redirect" title="Peoples' Friendship University of Russia">Peoples' Friendship University of Russia</a> on 6 February 2010 for his contribution to world peace and outstanding success in defeating terrorism.<sup id="cite_ref-224" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-224"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>223<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>an honorary doctorate by the <a href="/wiki/Beijing_Language_and_Culture_University" title="Beijing Language and Culture University">Beijing University of Foreign Languages</a> in China in August 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-225" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-225"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>224<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Visva_Bharati_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Visva Bharati University">Visva Bharati University</a> of <a href="/wiki/Calcutta" class="mw-redirect" title="Calcutta">Calcutta</a> in India conferred on him the title Professor Emeritus for his record on human rights.<sup id="cite_ref-priu.gov.lk_226-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-priu.gov.lk-226"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>225<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_political_families_in_Sri_Lanka" title="List of political families in Sri Lanka">List of political families in Sri Lanka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahinda_Rajapaksa_cabinet" class="mw-redirect" title="Mahinda Rajapaksa cabinet">Mahinda Rajapaksa cabinet</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output 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sites</dt></dl> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091229035314/http://www.mahinda2010.lk/">Official Website of Mahinda Rajapaksa Presidential Election Campaign – 2010</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pmoffice.gov.lk/">Sri Lankan Prime Minister's official website</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mahindarajapaksa.lk">Mahinda Rajapaksa's website</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080302201452/http://www.srilankafreedomparty.org/">Sri Lanka Freedom Party's official website</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>News media</dt></dl> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081026013018/http://www.dailynews.lk/2001/pix/picturegallery/picturegallery-home.htm">Mahinda Rajapaksa picture gallery</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" 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Sampanthan</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Opposition_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Leader of the Opposition (Sri Lanka)">Leader of the Opposition</a> </b><br />2018–2019 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Sajith_Premadasa" title="Sajith Premadasa">Sajith Premadasa</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Ranil_Wickremesinghe" title="Ranil Wickremesinghe">Ranil Wickremesinghe</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Prime Minister of Sri Lanka">Prime Minister of Sri Lanka</a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Disputed</span> </b><br />2018 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Ranil_Wickremesinghe" title="Ranil Wickremesinghe">Ranil Wickremesinghe</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Chandrika_Kumaratunga" title="Chandrika Kumaratunga">Chandrika Kumaratunga</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/President_of_Sri_Lanka" title="President of Sri Lanka">President of Sri Lanka</a> </b><br />2005–2015 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Maithripala_Sirisena" title="Maithripala Sirisena">Maithripala Sirisena</a></span></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Tilak_Marapana" title="Tilak Marapana">Tilak Marapana</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Defence_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Minister of Defence (Sri Lanka)">Minister of Defence</a> </b><br />2005–2015 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Maithripala_Sirisena" title="Maithripala Sirisena">Maithripala Sirisena</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Sarath_Amunugama_(politician)" title="Sarath Amunugama (politician)">Sarath Amunugama</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Finance_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Minister of Finance (Sri Lanka)">Minister of Finance</a> </b><br />2005–2015 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Ravi_Karunanayake" title="Ravi Karunanayake">Ravi Karunanayake</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Ranil_Wickremesinghe" title="Ranil Wickremesinghe">Ranil Wickremesinghe</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Prime Minister of Sri Lanka">Prime Minister of Sri Lanka</a> </b><br />2004–2005 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ratnasiri_Wickremanayake" title="Ratnasiri Wickremanayake">Ratnasiri Wickremanayake</a></span></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Ratnasiri_Wickremanayake" title="Ratnasiri Wickremanayake">Ratnasiri Wickremanayake</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Opposition_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Leader of the Opposition (Sri Lanka)">Leader of the Opposition</a> </b><br />2002–2004 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Ranil_Wickremesinghe" title="Ranil Wickremesinghe">Ranil Wickremesinghe</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Indika_Gunawardena" title="Indika Gunawardena">Indika Gunawardena</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Fisheries_and_Aquatic_Resources_Development" class="mw-redirect" title="Ministry of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development">Minister of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development</a> </b><br />1997–2001 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Mahinda_Wijesekara" title="Mahinda Wijesekara">Mahinda Wijesekara</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/D._B._Wijetunga" class="mw-redirect" title="D. B. Wijetunga">D. B. Wijetunga</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Labour,_Trade_Union_Relations_and_Sabaragamuwa_Development" class="mw-redirect" title="Ministry of Labour, Trade Union Relations and Sabaragamuwa Development">Minister of Labour and Vocational Training</a> </b><br />1994–1997 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Alavi_Moulana" title="Alavi Moulana">Alavi Moulana</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #cccccc"><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Parliament of Sri Lanka">Parliament of Sri Lanka</a> </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> Member of Parliament<br />for <a href="/wiki/Kurunegala_Electoral_District" title="Kurunegala Electoral District">Kurunegala</a> </b><br />2015 – present </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b>Incumbent</b> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><b>New district</b></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> Member of Parliament<br />for <a href="/wiki/Hambantota_Electoral_District" title="Hambantota Electoral District">Hambantota</a> </b><br />1989–2005 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/D._P._Atapattu" title="D. P. Atapattu">D. P. Atapattu</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> Member of Parliament<br />for <a href="/wiki/Beliatta_Electoral_District" title="Beliatta Electoral District">Beliatta</a> </b><br />1970–1977 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Ranjit_Atapattu" title="Ranjit Atapattu">Ranjit Atapattu</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #FFBF00;">Party political offices </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Chandrika_Kumaratunga" title="Chandrika Kumaratunga">Chandrika Kumaratunga</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Chairman_of_the_Sri_Lanka_Freedom_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Chairman of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party">Chairman of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party</a> </b><br />2005–2015 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Maithripala_Sirisena" title="Maithripala Sirisena">Maithripala Sirisena</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #FACEFF;">Diplomatic posts </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Tony_Abbott" title="Tony Abbott">Tony Abbott</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_Chair-in-Office" title="Commonwealth Chair-in-Office">Chairperson of the Commonwealth of Nations</a> </b><br />2013–2015 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Maithripala_Sirisena" title="Maithripala Sirisena">Maithripala Sirisena</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Manmohan_Singh" title="Manmohan Singh">Manmohan Singh</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Chairperson_of_SAARC&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Chairperson of SAARC (page does not exist)">Chairperson of SAARC</a> </b><br />2008 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Jigme_Thinley" title="Jigme Thinley">Jigme Thinley</a></div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Mahinda_Rajapaksa" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" 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class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3"><div> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_Sri_Lanka" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Presidents of Sri Lanka">6th</a> <a href="/wiki/President_of_Sri_Lanka" title="President of Sri Lanka">President of Sri Lanka</a> (2005–2015)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Prime_Ministers_of_Sri_Lanka" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Prime Ministers of Sri Lanka">13th</a> <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Prime Minister of Sri Lanka">Prime Minister of Sri Lanka</a> (2004–2005), (2018), (2019–2022)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_the_Sri_Lankan_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Member of the Sri Lankan Parliament">Member of the Sri Lankan Parliament</a> for <a href="/wiki/Kurunegala_Electoral_District" title="Kurunegala Electoral District">Kurunegala</a> (2015–present)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_the_Sri_Lankan_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Member of the Sri Lankan Parliament">Member of the Sri Lankan Parliament</a> for <a href="/wiki/Hambantota_Electoral_District" title="Hambantota Electoral District">Hambantota</a> (1989–2005)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_the_Sri_Lankan_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Member of the Sri Lankan Parliament">Member of the Sri Lankan Parliament</a> for <a href="/wiki/Beliatta_Electoral_District" title="Beliatta Electoral District">Beliatta</a> (1970–1977)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Presidency">Presidency</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/13th_Sri_Lankan_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="13th Sri Lankan Parliament">13th Sri Lankan Parliament</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/14th_Sri_Lankan_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="14th Sri Lankan Parliament">14th Sri Lankan Parliament</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahinda_Rajapaksa_cabinets" title="Mahinda Rajapaksa cabinets">Cabinets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri Lankan Civil War">Sri Lankan Civil War</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eelam_War_IV" title="Eelam War IV">Eelam War IV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_crimes_during_the_final_stages_of_the_Sri_Lankan_civil_war" title="War crimes during the final stages of the Sri Lankan civil war">War crimes</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_Lasantha_Wickrematunge" title="Assassination of Lasantha Wickrematunge">Assassination of Lasantha Wickrematunge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Sri_Lanka_worker_protests" title="2011 Sri Lanka worker protests">2011 Sri Lanka worker protests</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Impeachment_of_Shirani_Bandaranayake" title="Impeachment of Shirani Bandaranayake">Impeachment of Shirani Bandaranayake</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="5" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:WEF_on_the_Middle_East_Arab_and_foreign_Ministers_Crop.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Mahinda Rajapaksa"><img alt="Mahinda Rajapaksa" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/WEF_on_the_Middle_East_Arab_and_foreign_Ministers_Crop.jpg/90px-WEF_on_the_Middle_East_Arab_and_foreign_Ministers_Crop.jpg" decoding="async" width="90" height="128" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/WEF_on_the_Middle_East_Arab_and_foreign_Ministers_Crop.jpg/135px-WEF_on_the_Middle_East_Arab_and_foreign_Ministers_Crop.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/WEF_on_the_Middle_East_Arab_and_foreign_Ministers_Crop.jpg/180px-WEF_on_the_Middle_East_Arab_and_foreign_Ministers_Crop.jpg 2x" data-file-width="729" data-file-height="1035" /></a></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Post-presidency">Post-presidency</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2015_alleged_Sri_Lankan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_attempt" class="mw-redirect" title="2015 alleged Sri Lankan coup d'état attempt">2015 alleged Sri Lankan coup d'état attempt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_Sri_Lankan_constitutional_crisis" title="2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis">2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Premiership" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Prime_Minister_(2019–2022)">Premiership</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/16th_Sri_Lankan_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="16th Sri Lankan Parliament">16th Sri Lankan Parliament</a></li> <li>Cabinets <ul><li><a href="/wiki/First_Gotabaya_Rajapaksa_cabinet" title="First Gotabaya Rajapaksa cabinet">First</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Gotabaya_Rajapaksa_cabinet" title="Second Gotabaya Rajapaksa cabinet">Second</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_Gotabaya_Rajapaksa_cabinet" title="Third Gotabaya Rajapaksa cabinet">Third</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019%E2%80%93present_Sri_Lankan_economic_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="2019–present Sri Lankan economic crisis">2019 economic crisis</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2022_Sri_Lankan_protests" title="2022 Sri Lankan protests">2022 Sri Lankan protests</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_Sri_Lankan_political_crisis" title="2022 Sri Lankan political crisis">2022 Sri Lankan political crisis</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Electoral history</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Parliamentary <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1970_Ceylonese_parliamentary_election" title="1970 Ceylonese parliamentary election">1970</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1977_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election" title="1977 Sri Lankan parliamentary election">1977</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1989_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election" title="1989 Sri Lankan parliamentary election">1989</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1994_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election" title="1994 Sri Lankan parliamentary election">1994</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2000_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election" title="2000 Sri Lankan parliamentary election">2000</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2001_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election" title="2001 Sri Lankan parliamentary election">2001</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2004_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election" title="2004 Sri Lankan parliamentary election">2004</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election" title="2015 Sri Lankan parliamentary election">2015</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2020_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election" title="2020 Sri Lankan parliamentary election">2020</a></li></ul></li> <li>Presidential <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2005_Sri_Lankan_presidential_election" title="2005 Sri Lankan presidential election">2005</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_Sri_Lankan_presidential_election" title="2010 Sri Lankan presidential election">2010</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Sri_Lankan_presidential_election" title="2015 Sri Lankan presidential election">2015</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Rajapaksa_family" title="Rajapaksa family">Family</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shiranthi_Rajapaksa" class="mw-redirect" title="Shiranthi Rajapaksa">Shiranthi Rajapaksa</a> (spouse)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Namal_Rajapaksa" title="Namal Rajapaksa">Namal Rajapaksa</a> (son)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoshitha_Rajapaksa" title="Yoshitha Rajapaksa">Yoshitha Rajapaksa</a> (son)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rohitha_Rajapaksa" title="Rohitha Rajapaksa">Rohitha Rajapaksa</a> (son)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._A._Rajapaksa" title="D. A. Rajapaksa">D. A. Rajapaksa</a> (father)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chamal_Rajapaksa" title="Chamal Rajapaksa">Chamal Rajapaksa</a> (brother)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shashindra_Rajapaksa" class="mw-redirect" title="Shashindra Rajapaksa">Shashindra Rajapaksa</a> (nephew)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gotabaya_Rajapaksa" title="Gotabaya Rajapaksa">Gotabaya Rajapaksa</a> (brother)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basil_Rajapaksa" title="Basil Rajapaksa">Basil Rajapaksa</a> (brother)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._M._Rajapaksa" title="D. M. Rajapaksa">D. M. 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Samarasinghe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tikiri_Banda_Subasinghe" title="Tikiri Banda Subasinghe">Tikiri Banda Subasinghe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mudiyanse_Tennakoon" title="Mudiyanse Tennakoon">Mudiyanse Tennakoon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Protus_Tissera" title="Protus Tissera">Protus Tissera</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=P._B._Wettewa&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="P. B. Wettewa (page does not exist)">P. B. Wettewa</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=D._P._Wickramasinghe&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="D. P. Wickramasinghe (page does not exist)">D. P. Wickramasinghe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._A._J._Wijesinghe" title="M. A. J. Wijesinghe">M. A. J. Wijesinghe</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=P._Wijesinghe&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="P. Wijesinghe (page does not exist)">P. Wijesinghe</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=S._Wijewardena&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="S. 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Karunaratne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarath_Muttetuwegama" title="Sarath Muttetuwegama">Sarath Muttetuwegama</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vasudeva_Nanayakkara" title="Vasudeva Nanayakkara">Vasudeva Nanayakkara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N._M._Perera" title="N. M. Perera">N. M. Perera</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=P._R._Ratnayake&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="P. R. Ratnayake (page does not exist)">P. R. Ratnayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mallikka_Ellawala_Ratwatte" class="mw-redirect" title="Mallikka Ellawala Ratwatte">Mallikka Ellawala Ratwatte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seetha_Seneviratne" title="Seetha Seneviratne">Seetha Seneviratne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dudley_Senanayake" title="Dudley Senanayake">Dudley Senanayake</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rukman_Senanayake" title="Rukman Senanayake">Rukman Senanayake</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Athauda_Seneviratne" title="Athauda Seneviratne">Athauda Seneviratne</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=W._A._A._Sirisena&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="W. A. A. Sirisena (page does not exist)">W. A. A. Sirisena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dharmadasa_Wanniarachchi" title="Dharmadasa Wanniarachchi">Dharmadasa Wanniarachchi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dhanapala_Weerasekera" title="Dhanapala Weerasekera">Dhanapala Weerasekera</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=P._O._Wimalanaga&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="P. O. Wimalanaga (page does not exist)">P. O. Wimalanaga</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Southern_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Southern Province, Sri Lanka">Southern Province</a> (19)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sumanapala_Dahanayake" title="Sumanapala Dahanayake">Sumanapala Dahanayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wijeyananda_Dahanayake" title="Wijeyananda Dahanayake">Wijeyananda Dahanayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neal_de_Alwis" title="Neal de Alwis">Neal de Alwis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ronnie_de_Mel" title="Ronnie de Mel">Ronnie de Mel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/L._C._de_Silva" title="L. C. de Silva">L. C. de Silva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weerasinghe_de_Silva" title="Weerasinghe de Silva">Weerasinghe de Silva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H._W._Dissanayake" title="H. W. Dissanayake">Henry William Dissanayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prins_Gunasekera" title="Prins Gunasekera">Prins Gunasekera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panini_Ilangakoon" title="Panini Ilangakoon">Panini Ilangakoon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Kariyawasam" title="Albert Kariyawasam">Albert Kariyawasam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._G._Mendis" title="M. G. Mendis">M. G. Mendis</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aelian_Mahanaga_Nanayakkara&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Aelian Mahanaga Nanayakkara (page does not exist)">Aelian Mahanaga Nanayakkara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Rajapaksa" title="George Rajapaksa">George Rajapaksa</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lakshman_Rajapaksa" title="Lakshman Rajapaksa">Lakshman Rajapaksa</a></li></ul></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Mahinda Rajapaksa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don_Roy_Rajapakse" title="Don Roy Rajapakse">Don Roy Rajapakse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Senapala_Samarasekera" title="Senapala Samarasekera">Senapala Samarasekera</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edirisuriya_Tennyson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Edirisuriya Tennyson (page does not exist)">Edirisuriya Tennyson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B._Y._Tudawe" title="B. Y. Tudawe">B. Y. Tudawe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._A._Wickramasinghe" title="S. A. Wickramasinghe">S. A. Wickramasinghe</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Uva_Province" title="Uva Province">Uva Province</a> (10)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/R._M._Appuhamy" title="R. M. Appuhamy">R. M. Appuhamy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/W._P._G._Ariyadasa" title="W. P. G. Ariyadasa">W. P. G. Ariyadasa</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=K._Y._M._Wijeratne_Banda&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="K. Y. M. Wijeratne Banda (page does not exist)">K. Y. M. Wijeratne Banda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B._H._Bandara" title="B. H. Bandara">B. H. Bandara</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=R._M._Bandara&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="R. M. Bandara (page does not exist)">R. M. Bandara</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=W._M._R._S._B._Delungahawatta&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="W. M. R. S. B. Delungahawatta (page does not exist)">W. M. R. S. B. Delungahawatta</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=A._M._Jayawardena&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="A. M. Jayawardena (page does not exist)">A. M. Jayawardena</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=S._A._S._Somapala&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="S. A. S. Somapala (page does not exist)">S. A. S. Somapala</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Raja_Welegama&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Raja Welegama (page does not exist)">Raja Welegama</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=D._D._E._Wickremaratne&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="D. D. E. Wickremaratne (page does not exist)">D. D. E. Wickremaratne</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Western_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Western Province, Sri Lanka">Western Province</a> (35)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kusala_Abhayawardana" class="mw-redirect" title="Kusala Abhayawardana">Kusala Abhayawardana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Felix_Dias_Bandaranaike" title="Felix Dias Bandaranaike">Felix Dias Bandaranaike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sirimavo_Bandaranaike" title="Sirimavo Bandaranaike">Sirimavo Bandaranaike</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=A._T._Basnayake&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="A. T. Basnayake (page does not exist)">A. T. Basnayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/I._A._Cader" title="I. A. Cader">I. A. Cader</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Falil_Caffoor" title="Falil Caffoor">Falil Caffoor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Somaweera_Chandrasiri" title="Somaweera Chandrasiri">Somaweera Chandrasiri</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dharmasena_Attygalle" title="Dharmasena Attygalle">Dharmasena Attygalle</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wimalasiri_de_Mel" title="Wimalasiri de Mel">Wimalasiri de Mel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colvin_R._de_Silva" title="Colvin R. de Silva">Colvin R. de Silva</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=K._C._de_Silva&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="K. C. de Silva (page does not exist)">K. C. de Silva</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wijayapala_Mendis" title="Wijayapala Mendis">Wijayapala Mendis</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Denzil_Fernando" title="Denzil Fernando">Denzil Fernando</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cholomondeley_Goonewardene" title="Cholomondeley Goonewardene">Cholomondeley Goonewardene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leslie_Goonewardene" title="Leslie Goonewardene">Leslie Goonewardene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vivienne_Goonewardene" title="Vivienne Goonewardene">Vivienne Goonewardene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chandra_Gunasekera" title="Chandra Gunasekera">Chandra Gunasekera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._B._Ilangaratne" title="T. B. Ilangaratne">T. B. Ilangaratne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lakshman_Jayakody" title="Lakshman Jayakody">Lakshman Jayakody</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bonnie_Jayasuriya&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bonnie Jayasuriya (page does not exist)">Bonnie Jayasuriya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._R._Jayewardene" title="J. R. Jayewardene">J. R. Jayewardene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pieter_Keuneman" title="Pieter Keuneman">Pieter Keuneman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._D._J._L._Leo" title="A. D. J. L. Leo">A. D. J. L. Leo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mangala_Moonesinghe" title="Mangala Moonesinghe">Mangala Moonesinghe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._Obeyesekera" class="mw-redirect" title="S. Obeyesekera">S. Obeyesekera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dayasena_Pasqual" title="Dayasena Pasqual">Dayasena Pasqual</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G._J._Paris_Perera" title="G. J. Paris Perera">Paris Perera</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Michael_Perera" title="Joseph Michael Perera">Joseph Michael Perera</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._S._Perera" title="R. S. Perera">R. S. Perera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ranasinghe_Premadasa" title="Ranasinghe Premadasa">Ranasinghe Premadasa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilfred_Senanayake" title="Wilfred Senanayake">Wilfred Senanayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._P._de_Z._Siriwardena" title="M. P. de Z. Siriwardena">M. P. de Z. Siriwardena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bernard_Soysa" title="Bernard Soysa">Bernard Soysa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V._A._Sugathadasa" title="V. A. Sugathadasa">V. A. Sugathadasa</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vincent_Perera" title="Vincent Perera">Vincent Perera</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._K._K._Suriarachchi" title="S. K. K. Suriarachchi">S. K. K. Suriarachchi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stanley_Tillekeratne" title="Stanley Tillekeratne">Stanley Tillekeratne</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herbert_Wickramasinghe&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Herbert Wickramasinghe (page does not exist)">Herbert Wickramasinghe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ratnasiri_Wickremanayake" title="Ratnasiri Wickremanayake">Ratnasiri Wickremanayake</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Appointed (6)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abdul_Aziz_(Sri_Lankan_politician)" title="Abdul Aziz (Sri Lankan politician)">Abdul Aziz</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=M._D._S._Jayawardene&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="M. D. S. Jayawardene (page does not exist)">M. D. S. Jayawardene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Semage_Salman_Kulatileke" title="Semage Salman Kulatileke">S. S. Kulatileke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Badi-ud-din_Mahmud" title="Badi-ud-din Mahmud">Badi-ud-din Mahmud</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=J._E._J._Rodrigo&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="J. E. J. Rodrigo (page does not exist)">J. E. J. Rodrigo</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=M._C._Subramaniam&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="M. C. Subramaniam (page does not exist)">M. C. Subramaniam</a> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chelliah_Kumarasuriyar&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Chelliah Kumarasuriyar (page does not exist)">Chelliah Kumarasuriyar</a></li></ul></li></ul> <p>*Appointed MPs were abolished in 1972 by the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Constitution_of_1972" title="Sri Lankan Constitution of 1972">First Republican Constitution</a> </p> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="←_25px_Members_of_the_9th_Parliament_of_Sri_Lanka_(1989_(1989)–1994_(1994))_→" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Members_of_the_9th_Parliament_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Template:Members of the 9th Parliament of Sri Lanka"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Members_of_the_9th_Parliament_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Template talk:Members of the 9th Parliament of Sri Lanka"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Members_of_the_9th_Parliament_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Members of the 9th Parliament of Sri Lanka"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="←_25px_Members_of_the_9th_Parliament_of_Sri_Lanka_(1989_(1989)–1994_(1994))_→" class="adr" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Template:Members_of_the_8th_Parliament_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Template:Members of the 8th Parliament of Sri Lanka">←</a> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Sri_Lanka.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Flag_of_Sri_Lanka.svg/25px-Flag_of_Sri_Lanka.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Flag_of_Sri_Lanka.svg/38px-Flag_of_Sri_Lanka.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Flag_of_Sri_Lanka.svg/50px-Flag_of_Sri_Lanka.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/9th_Parliament_of_Sri_Lanka" title="9th Parliament of Sri Lanka">Members of the <span class="fn org">9th Parliament of <span class="country-name">Sri Lanka</span></span> (1989<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1989</span>)</span>–1994<span style="display:none"> (<span class="dtend itvend">1994</span>)</span>)</a> <a href="/wiki/Template:Members_of_the_10th_Parliament_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Template:Members of the 10th Parliament of Sri Lanka">→</a></div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_Parliament_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka">Speaker</a>:</b> <a href="/wiki/M._H._Mohamed" title="M. H. Mohamed">M. H. Mohamed</a><br /></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Prime Minister of Sri Lanka">Prime Minister</a>:</b> <a href="/wiki/Dingiri_Banda_Wijetunga" title="Dingiri Banda Wijetunga">Dingiri Banda Wijetunga</a>/<a href="/wiki/Ranil_Wickremesinghe" title="Ranil Wickremesinghe">Ranil Wickremesinghe</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Opposition_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Leader of the Opposition (Sri Lanka)">Leader of the Opposition</a>:</b> <a href="/wiki/Sirimavo_Bandaranaike" title="Sirimavo Bandaranaike">Sirimavo Bandaranaike </a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Central_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Central Province, Sri Lanka">Central Province</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Kandy_Electoral_District" title="Kandy Electoral District">Kandy</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mahinda_Abeykoon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mahinda Abeykoon (page does not exist)">Mahinda Abeykoon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tissa_Attanayake" title="Tissa Attanayake">Tissa Attanayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._R._M._Abdul_Cader" title="A. R. M. Abdul Cader">A. R. M. Abdul Cader</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chandraman_de_Silva&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Chandraman de Silva (page does not exist)">Chandraman de Silva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harindra_Dunuwille" title="Harindra Dunuwille">Harindra Dunuwille</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abdul_Cader_Shahul_Hameed" title="Abdul Cader Shahul Hameed">Abdul Cader Shahul Hameed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._M._Jayaratne" title="D. M. Jayaratne">D. M. Jayaratne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lakshman_Kiriella" title="Lakshman Kiriella">Lakshman Kiriella</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._A._Daniel" title="M. A. 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H. M. Ashraff">M. H. M. Ashraff</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nihal_Bakmeewewa&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nihal Bakmeewewa (page does not exist)">Nihal Bakmeewewa</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ahangama_Polwatte_Galappatthige_Chandradasa&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ahangama Polwatte Galappatthige Chandradasa (page does not exist)">Ahangama Polwatte Galappatthige Chandradasa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._Dayaratna" title="P. Dayaratna">P. Dayaratna</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Karunasinghe_Thewarapperuma&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Karunasinghe Thewarapperuma (page does not exist)">Karunasinghe Thewarapperuma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._Thiviyanathan" title="J. Thiviyanathan">J. 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Navaratnam">K. Navaratnam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eliyathamby_Pararasasingam" title="Eliyathamby Pararasasingam">Eliyathamby Pararasasingam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suresh_Premachandran" title="Suresh Premachandran">Suresh Premachandran</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arunasalam_Ponniah_Selliah&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Arunasalam Ponniah Selliah (page does not exist)">Arunasalam Ponniah Selliah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kanapathy_Selvanayagam" title="Kanapathy Selvanayagam">Kanapathy Selvanayagam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._Sivamaharajah" title="S. Sivamaharajah">S. Sivamaharajah</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joseph_George_Rajenthiram&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Joseph George Rajenthiram (page does not exist)">Joseph George Rajenthiram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eliyathamby_Ratnasabapathy" title="Eliyathamby Ratnasabapathy">Eliyathamby Ratnasabapathy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G._Yogasangari" title="G. Yogasangari">G. 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A. Suriyaarachchi">C. A. 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D. R. Jayaratne">S. D. R. 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R. M. Abdul Cader">A. R. M. Abdul Cader</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gamini_Dissanayake" title="Gamini Dissanayake">Gamini Dissanayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abdul_Cader_Shahul_Hameed" title="Abdul Cader Shahul Hameed">Abdul Cader Shahul Hameed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._M._Jayaratne" title="D. M. Jayaratne">D. M. Jayaratne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lucky_Jayawardena" title="Lucky Jayawardena">Lucky Jayawardena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lakshman_Kiriella" title="Lakshman Kiriella">Lakshman Kiriella</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wilson_Kuruppuarachchi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wilson Kuruppuarachchi (page does not exist)">Wilson Kuruppuarachchi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anuruddha_Ratwatte" title="Anuruddha Ratwatte">Anuruddha Ratwatte</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Irajarathnan_Sivasamy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Irajarathnan Sivasamy (page does not exist)">Irajarathnan Sivasamy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ediriweera_Weerawardhana" title="Ediriweera Weerawardhana">Ediriweera Weerawardhana</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Matale_Electoral_District" title="Matale Electoral District">Matale</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alick_Aluwihare" title="Alick Aluwihare">Alick Aluwihare</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nandimithra_Ekanayake" title="Nandimithra Ekanayake">Nandimithra Ekanayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monty_Gopallawa" title="Monty Gopallawa">Monty Gopallawa</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vidana_Gamage_Jinadasa&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Vidana Gamage Jinadasa (page does not exist)">Vidana Gamage Jinadasa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Janaka_Bandara_Tennakoon" title="Janaka Bandara Tennakoon">Janaka Bandara Tennakoon</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Nuwara_Eliya_Electoral_District" title="Nuwara Eliya Electoral District">Nuwara Eliya</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tissa_Abhayagunasekara&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tissa Abhayagunasekara (page does not exist)">Tissa Abhayagunasekara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._Chandrasekaran" title="P. 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Thangathurai</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Northern_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Northern Province, Sri Lanka">Northern Province</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Jaffna_Electoral_District" title="Jaffna Electoral District">Jaffna</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Atputharajah_Nadarajah" title="Atputharajah Nadarajah">Atputharajah Nadarajah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murugesu_Chandrakumar" title="Murugesu Chandrakumar">Murugesu Chandrakumar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rajendran_Ramamoorthy" title="Rajendran Ramamoorthy">Rajendran Ramamoorthy</a></li> <li>Unfinished</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Vanni_Electoral_District" title="Vanni Electoral District">Vanni</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=S._S._M._Abu_Bakar&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="S. 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Semasinghe</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Polonnaruwa_Electoral_District" title="Polonnaruwa Electoral District">Polonnaruwa</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nandasena_Herath&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nandasena Herath (page does not exist)">Nandasena Herath</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=T._B._Mahalekam&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="T. B. Mahalekam (page does not exist)">T. B. Mahalekam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H._G._P._Nelson" title="H. G. P. Nelson">H. G. P. 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M. Bandaranayake (page does not exist)">D. M. Bandaranayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bandula_Basnayake" title="Bandula Basnayake">Bandula Basnayake</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jayadeva_Chandrawansha&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jayadeva Chandrawansha (page does not exist)">Jayadeva Chandrawansha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salinda_Dissanayake" title="Salinda Dissanayake">Salinda Dissanayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._B._Ekanayake" title="T. B. Ekanayake">T. B. Ekanayake</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=H.M.A._Loku_Bandara&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="H.M.A. Loku Bandara (page does not exist)">H.M.A. Loku Bandara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._B._Nawinne" title="S. B. Nawinne">S. B. 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Wickramasinghe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anura_Priyadharshana_Yapa" title="Anura Priyadharshana Yapa">Anura Priyadharshana Yapa</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Puttalam_Electoral_District" title="Puttalam Electoral District">Puttalam</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/D._M._Dassanayake" title="D. M. Dassanayake">D. M. Dassanayake</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Fernando_(politician)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Joseph Fernando (politician) (page does not exist)">Joseph Fernando</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milroy_Fernando" title="Milroy Fernando">Milroy Fernando</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_Herath" title="Harold Herath">Harold Herath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Festus_Perera" title="Festus Perera">Festus Perera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._D._R._Jayaratne" title="S. D. R. Jayaratne">S. D. R. 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style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Kalutara_Electoral_District" title="Kalutara Electoral District">Kalutara</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Reginold_Cooray" class="mw-redirect" title="Reginold Cooray">Reginold Cooray</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tuder_Dayarathne&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tuder Dayarathne (page does not exist)">Tuder Dayarathne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nandana_Gunathilake" title="Nandana Gunathilake">Nandana Gunathilake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imthiaz_Bakeer_Markar" title="Imthiaz Bakeer Markar">Imthiaz Bakeer Markar</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ediriweera_Premarathne&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ediriweera Premarathne (page does not exist)">Ediriweera Premarathne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahinda_Samarasinghe" title="Mahinda Samarasinghe">Mahinda Samarasinghe</a></li> <li><a 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A. Wijethunga">A. A. 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Suriyaarachchi</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/North_Eastern_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="North Eastern Province, Sri Lanka">North Eastern Province</a> (31)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Ampara_Electoral_District" title="Ampara Electoral District">Ampara</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ferial_Ashraff" title="Ferial Ashraff">Ferial Ashraff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._L._M._Athaullah" title="A. L. M. Athaullah">A. L. M. Athaullah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._Dayaratna" title="P. Dayaratna">P. Dayaratna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cassim_Faizal" title="Cassim Faizal">Cassim Faizal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rauff_Hakeem" title="Rauff Hakeem">Rauff Hakeem</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/A._M._M._Naushad" title="A. M. M. Naushad">A. M. M. Naushad</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._Pathmanathan" title="K. Pathmanathan">K. Pathmanathan</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Thangathurai_William" title="Thomas Thangathurai William">Thomas Thangathurai William</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/L._G._Wasantha_Piyatissa" title="L. G. Wasantha Piyatissa">L. G. Wasantha Piyatissa</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Batticaloa_Electoral_District" title="Batticaloa Electoral District">Batticaloa</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/S._Jeyanandamoorthy" title="S. Jeyanandamoorthy">S. Jeyanandamoorthy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thanmanpillai_Kanagasabai" title="Thanmanpillai Kanagasabai">Thanmanpillai Kanagasabai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thangeswary_Kathiraman" title="Thangeswary Kathiraman">Thangeswary Kathiraman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingsley_Rasanayagam" title="Kingsley Rasanayagam">Kingsley Rasanayagam</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/P._Ariyanethiran" title="P. Ariyanethiran">P. Ariyanethiran</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ameer_Ali_Shihabdeen" title="Ameer Ali Shihabdeen">Ameer Ali Shihabdeen</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Jaffna_Electoral_District" title="Jaffna Electoral District">Jaffna</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Douglas_Devananda" title="Douglas Devananda">Douglas Devananda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._Kajendran" title="S. Kajendran">S. Kajendran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gajendrakumar_Ponnambalam" title="Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam">Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suresh_Premachandran" title="Suresh Premachandran">Suresh Premachandran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nadarajah_Raviraj" title="Nadarajah Raviraj">Nadarajah Raviraj</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/N._Srikantha" title="N. Srikantha">N. Srikantha</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mavai_Senathirajah" title="Mavai Senathirajah">Mavai Senathirajah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._K._Shivajilingam" title="M. K. Shivajilingam">M. K. Shivajilingam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pathmini_Sithamparanathan" title="Pathmini Sithamparanathan">Pathmini Sithamparanathan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._Sivanesan_(member_of_parliament)" class="mw-redirect" title="K. Sivanesan (member of parliament)">K. Sivanesan</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Solomon_Cyril" title="Solomon Cyril">Solomon Cyril</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Trincomalee_Electoral_District" title="Trincomalee Electoral District">Trincomalee</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/M._N._Abdul_Majeed" title="M. N. Abdul Majeed">M. N. Abdul Majeed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._Sampanthan" title="R. Sampanthan">R. Sampanthan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._Thurairetnasingam" title="K. Thurairetnasingam">K. Thurairetnasingam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jayantha_Wijesekara" title="Jayantha Wijesekara">Jayantha Wijesekara</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Vanni_Electoral_District" title="Vanni Electoral District">Vanni</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Selvam_Adaikalanathan" title="Selvam Adaikalanathan">Selvam Adaikalanathan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sivasakthy_Ananthan" title="Sivasakthy Ananthan">Sivasakthy Ananthan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rishad_Bathiudeen" title="Rishad Bathiudeen">Rishad Bathiudeen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._Kanagaratnam" title="S. Kanagaratnam">S. Kanagaratnam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._Kishore" title="S. Kishore">S. Kishore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vino_Noharathalingam" title="Vino Noharathalingam">Vino Noharathalingam</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/North_Western_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="North Western Province, Sri Lanka">North Western Province</a> (24)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Kurunegala_Electoral_District" title="Kurunegala Electoral District">Kurunegala</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Indika_Bandaranayake" title="Indika Bandaranayake">Indika Bandaranayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bandula_Basnayake" title="Bandula Basnayake">Bandula Basnayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rohitha_Bogollagama" title="Rohitha Bogollagama">Rohitha Bogollagama</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anura_Kumara_Dissanayake" title="Anura Kumara Dissanayake">Anura Kumara Dissanayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salinda_Dissanayake" title="Salinda Dissanayake">Salinda Dissanayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._B._Ekanayake" title="T. B. Ekanayake">T. B. Ekanayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnston_Fernando" title="Johnston Fernando">Johnston Fernando</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jayarathna_Herath" title="Jayarathna Herath">Jayarathna Herath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dayasiri_Jayasekara" title="Dayasiri Jayasekara">Dayasiri Jayasekara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akila_Viraj_Kariyawasam" title="Akila Viraj Kariyawasam">Akila Viraj Kariyawasam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._D._Namal_Karunaratne" title="M. D. Namal Karunaratne">M. D. Namal Karunaratne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._B._Nawinne" title="S. B. Nawinne">S. B. Nawinne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gamini_Jayawickrama_Perera" title="Gamini Jayawickrama Perera">Gamini Jayawickrama Perera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bimal_Rathnayaka" class="mw-redirect" title="Bimal Rathnayaka">Bimal Rathnayaka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amara_Piyaseeli_Ratnayake" title="Amara Piyaseeli Ratnayake">Amara Piyaseeli Ratnayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anura_Priyadharshana_Yapa" title="Anura Priyadharshana Yapa">Anura Priyadharshana Yapa</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Puttalam_Electoral_District" title="Puttalam Electoral District">Puttalam</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Palitha_Range_Bandara" title="Palitha Range Bandara">Palitha Range Bandara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._M._Dassanayake" title="D. M. Dassanayake">D. M. Dassanayake</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Piyankara_Jayaratne" title="Piyankara Jayaratne">Piyankara Jayaratne</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weerakumara_Dissanayake" title="Weerakumara Dissanayake">Weerakumara Dissanayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milroy_Fernando" title="Milroy Fernando">Milroy Fernando</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samansiri_Herath" title="Samansiri Herath">Samansiri Herath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Larine_Perera" title="Larine Perera">Larine Perera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neomal_Perera" title="Neomal Perera">Neomal Perera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dayasritha_Tissera" title="Dayasritha Tissera">Dayasritha Tissera</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Sabaragamuwa_Province" title="Sabaragamuwa Province">Sabaragamuwa Province</a> (19)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Kegalle_Electoral_District" title="Kegalle Electoral District">Kegalle</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kabir_Hashim" title="Kabir Hashim">Kabir Hashim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maheepala_Herath" title="Maheepala Herath">Maheepala Herath</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/H._R._Mithrapala" title="H. R. Mithrapala">H. R. Mithrapala</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anuruddha_Polgampala&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Anuruddha Polgampala (page does not exist)">Anuruddha Polgampala</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lalith_Dissanayake" title="Lalith Dissanayake">Lalith Dissanayake</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Champika_Premadasa" title="Champika Premadasa">Champika Premadasa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._M._Gamini_Rathnayake" class="mw-redirect" title="R. M. Gamini Rathnayake">R. M. Gamini Rathnayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rukman_Senanayake" title="Rukman Senanayake">Rukman Senanayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Athauda_Seneviratne" title="Athauda Seneviratne">Athauda Seneviratne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ranjith_Siyambalapitiya" title="Ranjith Siyambalapitiya">Ranjith Siyambalapitiya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mano_Wijeyeratne" title="Mano Wijeyeratne">Mano Wijeyeratne</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Ratnapura_Electoral_District" title="Ratnapura Electoral District">Ratnapura</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thalatha_Atukorale" title="Thalatha Atukorale">Thalatha Atukorale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dunesh_Gankanda" title="Dunesh Gankanda">Dunesh Gankanda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deepal_Gunasekara" title="Deepal Gunasekara">Deepal Gunasekara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Achala_Jagodage" title="Achala Jagodage">Achala Jagodage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Premalal_Jayasekara" title="Premalal Jayasekara">Premalal Jayasekara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Susantha_Punchinilame" title="Susantha Punchinilame">Susantha Punchinilame</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jayatissa_Ranaweera" title="Jayatissa Ranaweera">Jayatissa Ranaweera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahinda_Ratnatilaka" title="Mahinda Ratnatilaka">Mahinda Ratnatilaka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Seneviratne" title="John Seneviratne">John Seneviratne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pavithra_Devi_Wanniarachchi" class="mw-redirect" title="Pavithra Devi Wanniarachchi">Pavithra Devi Wanniarachchi</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Southern_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Southern Province, Sri Lanka">Southern Province</a> (25)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Galle_Electoral_District" title="Galle Electoral District">Galle</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vajira_Abeywardena" title="Vajira Abeywardena">Vajira Abeywardena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amarasiri_Dodangoda" title="Amarasiri Dodangoda">Amarasiri Dodangoda</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chandima_Weerakkody" title="Chandima Weerakkody">Chandima Weerakkody</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Piyasena_Gamage" title="Piyasena Gamage">Piyasena Gamage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gayantha_Karunathilaka" title="Gayantha Karunathilaka">Gayantha Karunathilaka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ajith_Kumara" title="Ajith Kumara">Ajith Kumara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hemakumara_Nanayakkara" title="Hemakumara Nanayakkara">Hemakumara Nanayakkara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lionel_Premasiri" title="Lionel Premasiri">Lionel Premasiri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gunaratna_Weerakoon" title="Gunaratna Weerakoon">Gunaratna Weerakoon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chandrasena_Wijesinghe" title="Chandrasena Wijesinghe">Chandrasena Wijesinghe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thilakaratne_Withanachchi" title="Thilakaratne Withanachchi">Thilakaratne Withanachchi</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Hambantota_Electoral_District" title="Hambantota Electoral District">Hambantota</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mahinda_Amaraweera" title="Mahinda Amaraweera">Mahinda Amaraweera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nihal_Galappaththi" title="Nihal Galappaththi">Nihal Galappaththi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sajith_Premadasa" title="Sajith Premadasa">Sajith Premadasa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chamal_Rajapaksa" title="Chamal Rajapaksa">Chamal Rajapaksa</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Mahinda Rajapaksa</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nirupama_Rajapaksa" title="Nirupama Rajapaksa">Nirupama Rajapaksa</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vijitha_Ranaweera" title="Vijitha Ranaweera">Vijitha Ranaweera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dilip_Wedaarachchi" title="Dilip Wedaarachchi">Dilip Wedaarachchi</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Matara_Electoral_District" title="Matara Electoral District">Matara</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lakshman_Yapa_Abeywardena" title="Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena">Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahinda_Yapa_Abeywardena" title="Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena">Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chandrasiri_Gajadeera" title="Chandrasiri Gajadeera">Chandrasiri Gajadeera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jinadasa_Kitulagoda" title="Jinadasa Kitulagoda">Jinadasa Kitulagoda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pemasiri_Manage" title="Pemasiri Manage">Pemasiri Manage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sagala_Ratnayaka" title="Sagala Ratnayaka">Sagala Ratnayaka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mangala_Samaraweera" title="Mangala Samaraweera">Mangala Samaraweera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahinda_Wijesekara" title="Mahinda Wijesekara">Mahinda Wijesekara</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Uva_Province" title="Uva Province">Uva Province</a> (13)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Badulla_Electoral_District" title="Badulla Electoral District">Badulla</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nimal_Siripala_de_Silva" title="Nimal Siripala de Silva">Nimal Siripala de Silva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/W._J._M._Lokubandara" title="W. J. M. Lokubandara">W. J. M. Lokubandara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dilan_Perera" title="Dilan Perera">Dilan Perera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ravindra_Samaraweera" title="Ravindra Samaraweera">Ravindra Samaraweera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._Satchithanandan" title="M. Satchithanandan">M. Satchithanandan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lakshman_Senewiratne" title="Lakshman Senewiratne">Lakshman Senewiratne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vadivel_Suresh" title="Vadivel Suresh">Vadivel Suresh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samantha_Vidyaratna" title="Samantha Vidyaratna">Samantha Vidyaratna</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Monaragala_Electoral_District" title="Monaragala Electoral District">Monaragala</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dharmadasa_Banda" title="Dharmadasa Banda">Dharmadasa Banda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._M._Ranjith_Madduma_Bandara" class="mw-redirect" title="R. M. Ranjith Madduma Bandara">R. M. Ranjith Madduma Bandara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._M._Padma_Udhaya_Shantha_Gunasekera" class="mw-redirect" title="R. M. Padma Udhaya Shantha Gunasekera">R. M. Padma Udhaya Shantha Gunasekera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sumedha_G._Jayasena" class="mw-redirect" title="Sumedha G. Jayasena">Sumedha G. Jayasena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._P._Jagath_Pushpakumara" class="mw-redirect" title="A. P. Jagath Pushpakumara">A. P. Jagath Pushpakumara</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Western_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Western Province, Sri Lanka">Western Province</a> (47)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Colombo_Electoral_District" title="Colombo Electoral District">Colombo</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kotapola_Amarakitti_Thero" title="Kotapola Amarakitti Thero">Kotapola Amarakitti Thero</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lakshman_Nipuna_Arachchi" title="Lakshman Nipuna Arachchi">Lakshman Nipuna Arachchi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uduwe_Dhammaloka" title="Uduwe Dhammaloka">Uduwe Dhammaloka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._H._M._Fowzie" title="A. H. M. Fowzie">A. H. M. Fowzie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mano_Ganesan" title="Mano Ganesan">Mano Ganesan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bandula_Gunawardane" title="Bandula Gunawardane">Bandula Gunawardane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dinesh_Gunawardena" title="Dinesh Gunawardena">Dinesh Gunawardena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunil_Handunnetti" title="Sunil Handunnetti">Sunil Handunnetti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ravi_Karunanayake" title="Ravi Karunanayake">Ravi Karunanayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeewan_Kumaranatunga" title="Jeewan Kumaranatunga">Jeewan Kumaranatunga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gamini_Lokuge" title="Gamini Lokuge">Gamini Lokuge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._Maheswaran" title="T. Maheswaran">T. Maheswaran</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mohamed_Rajabdeen" title="Mohamed Rajabdeen">Mohamed Rajabdeen</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mohamed_Mahroof" title="Mohamed Mahroof">Mohamed Mahroof</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._H._Mohamed" title="M. H. Mohamed">M. H. 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H. A. Haleem">M. H. A. Haleem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anuradha_Jayaratne" title="Anuradha Jayaratne">Anuradha Jayaratne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lucky_Jayawardena" title="Lucky Jayawardena">Lucky Jayawardena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lakshman_Kiriella" title="Lakshman Kiriella">Lakshman Kiriella</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keheliya_Rambukwella" title="Keheliya Rambukwella">Keheliya Rambukwella</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lohan_Ratwatte" title="Lohan Ratwatte">Lohan Ratwatte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._Velu_Kumar" title="M. Velu Kumar">M. Velu Kumar</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Matale_Electoral_District" title="Matale Electoral District">Matale</a> (5)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ranjith_Aluwihare" title="Ranjith Aluwihare">Ranjith Aluwihare</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wasantha_Aluwihare" title="Wasantha Aluwihare">Wasantha Aluwihare</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lakshman_Wasantha_Perera" title="Lakshman Wasantha Perera">Lakshman Wasantha Perera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Janaka_Bandara_Tennakoon" title="Janaka Bandara Tennakoon">Janaka Bandara Tennakoon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rohini_Kumari_Wijerathna" title="Rohini Kumari Wijerathna">Rohini Kumari Wijerathna</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Nuwara_Eliya_Electoral_District" title="Nuwara Eliya Electoral District">Nuwara Eliya</a> (8)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Palani_Digambaran" title="Palani Digambaran">Palani Digambaran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Navin_Dissanayake" title="Navin Dissanayake">Navin Dissanayake</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=K._K._Piyadasa&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="K. K. Piyadasa (page does not exist)">K. K. Piyadasa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Velusami_Radhakrishnan" title="Velusami Radhakrishnan">Velusami Radhakrishnan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._B._Rathnayake" class="mw-redirect" title="C. B. Rathnayake">C. B. Rathnayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muthu_Sivalingam" title="Muthu Sivalingam">Muthu Sivalingam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._Thilakarajah" title="M. Thilakarajah">M. Thilakarajah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arumugam_Thondaman" title="Arumugam Thondaman">Arumugam Thondaman</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Eastern Province, Sri Lanka">Eastern</a> (16)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Ampara_Electoral_District" title="Ampara Electoral District">Ampara</a> (7)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wimalaweera_Dissanayake" title="Wimalaweera Dissanayake">Wimalaweera Dissanayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cassim_Faizal" title="Cassim Faizal">Cassim Faizal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daya_Gamage" title="Daya Gamage">Daya Gamage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H._M._M._Harees" title="H. M. M. Harees">H. M. M. Harees</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._Kodeeswaran" title="K. Kodeeswaran">K. Kodeeswaran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mansoor_Ibrahim" title="Mansoor Ibrahim">Mansoor Ibrahim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sriyani_Wijewickrama" title="Sriyani Wijewickrama">Sriyani Wijewickrama</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Batticaloa_Electoral_District" title="Batticaloa Electoral District">Batticaloa</a> (5)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Seyed_Ali_Zahir_Moulana" title="Seyed Ali Zahir Moulana">Seyed Ali Zahir Moulana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ameer_Ali_Shihabdeen" title="Ameer Ali Shihabdeen">Ameer Ali Shihabdeen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G._Sirinesan" title="G. Sirinesan">G. Sirinesan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._Viyalendiran" title="S. Viyalendiran">S. Viyalendiran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._Yogeswaran" title="S. Yogeswaran">S. Yogeswaran</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Trincomalee_Electoral_District" title="Trincomalee Electoral District">Trincomalee</a> (4)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Imran_Maharoof" title="Imran Maharoof">Imran Maharoof</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._A._M._Maharoof" title="M. A. M. Maharoof">M. A. M. Maharoof</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Susantha_Punchinilame" title="Susantha Punchinilame">Susantha Punchinilame</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._Sampanthan" title="R. Sampanthan">R. Sampanthan</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Northern_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Northern Province, Sri Lanka">Northern</a> (13)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Jaffna_Electoral_District" title="Jaffna Electoral District">Jaffna</a> (7)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Douglas_Devananda" title="Douglas Devananda">Douglas Devananda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vijayakala_Maheswaran" title="Vijayakala Maheswaran">Vijayakala Maheswaran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/E._Saravanapavan" title="E. Saravanapavan">E. Saravanapavan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mavai_Senathirajah" title="Mavai Senathirajah">Mavai Senathirajah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._Siddarthan" title="D. Siddarthan">D. Siddarthan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._Sritharan" class="mw-redirect" title="S. Sritharan">S. Sritharan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._A._Sumanthiran" title="M. A. Sumanthiran">M. A. Sumanthiran</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Vanni_Electoral_District" title="Vanni Electoral District">Vanni</a> (6)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Selvam_Adaikalanathan" title="Selvam Adaikalanathan">Selvam Adaikalanathan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sivasakthy_Ananthan" title="Sivasakthy Ananthan">Sivasakthy Ananthan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rishad_Bathiudeen" title="Rishad Bathiudeen">Rishad Bathiudeen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._Kader_Masthan" title="K. Kader Masthan">K. Kader Masthan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Nirmalanathan" title="Charles Nirmalanathan">Charles Nirmalanathan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._Sivamohan" title="S. Sivamohan">S. Sivamohan</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/North_Central_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="North Central Province, Sri Lanka">North Central</a> (14)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Anuradhapura_Electoral_District" title="Anuradhapura Electoral District">Anuradhapura</a> (9)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/S._M._Chandrasena" title="S. M. Chandrasena">S. M. Chandrasena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duminda_Dissanayake" title="Duminda Dissanayake">Duminda Dissanayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weerakumara_Dissanayake" title="Weerakumara Dissanayake">Weerakumara Dissanayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chandima_Gamage" title="Chandima Gamage">Chandima Gamage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._Harrison" title="P. Harrison">P. Harrison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ishak_Rahuman" title="Ishak Rahuman">Ishak Rahuman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chandrani_Bandara_Jayasinghe" title="Chandrani Bandara Jayasinghe">Chandrani Bandara Jayasinghe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarath_Chandrasiri_Muthukumarana" title="Sarath Chandrasiri Muthukumarana">Sarath Chandrasiri Muthukumarana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asanka_Shehan_Semasinghe" title="Asanka Shehan Semasinghe">Asanka Shehan Semasinghe</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Polonnaruwa_Electoral_District" title="Polonnaruwa Electoral District">Polonnaruwa</a> (5)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Siripala_Gamalath" title="Siripala Gamalath">Siripala Gamalath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sidney_Jayarathna" title="Sidney Jayarathna">Sidney Jayarathna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nalaka_Kolonne" title="Nalaka Kolonne">Nalaka Kolonne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roshan_Ranasinghe" title="Roshan Ranasinghe">Roshan Ranasinghe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wasantha_Senanayake" class="mw-redirect" title="Wasantha Senanayake">Wasantha Senanayake</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/North_Western_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="North Western Province, Sri Lanka">North Western</a> (23)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Kurunegala_Electoral_District" title="Kurunegala Electoral District">Kurunegala</a> (15)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ashoka_Abeysinghe" title="Ashoka Abeysinghe">Ashoka Abeysinghe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._C._Alawathuwala" title="J. C. Alawathuwala">J. C. Alawathuwala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indika_Bandaranayake" title="Indika Bandaranayake">Indika Bandaranayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tharanath_Basnayaka" title="Tharanath Basnayaka">Tharanath Basnayaka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salinda_Dissanayake" title="Salinda Dissanayake">Salinda Dissanayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._B._Ekanayake" title="T. B. Ekanayake">T. B. Ekanayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnston_Fernando" title="Johnston Fernando">Johnston Fernando</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thushara_Indunil" title="Thushara Indunil">Thushara Indunil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nalin_Bandara" title="Nalin Bandara">Nalin Bandara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dayasiri_Jayasekara" title="Dayasiri Jayasekara">Dayasiri Jayasekara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akila_Viraj_Kariyawasam" title="Akila Viraj Kariyawasam">Akila Viraj Kariyawasam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._B._Nawinne" title="S. B. Nawinne">S. B. Nawinne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gamini_Jayawickrama_Perera" title="Gamini Jayawickrama Perera">Gamini Jayawickrama Perera</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Mahinda Rajapaksa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anura_Priyadharshana_Yapa" title="Anura Priyadharshana Yapa">Anura Priyadharshana Yapa</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Puttalam_Electoral_District" title="Puttalam Electoral District">Puttalam</a> (8)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shantha_Abeysekara" title="Shantha Abeysekara">Shantha Abeysekara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hector_Appuhamy" title="Hector Appuhamy">Hector Appuhamy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palitha_Range_Bandara" title="Palitha Range Bandara">Palitha Range Bandara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arundika_Fernando" title="Arundika Fernando">Arundika Fernando</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Piyankara_Jayaratne" title="Piyankara Jayaratne">Piyankara Jayaratne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sanath_Nishantha" title="Sanath Nishantha">Sanath Nishantha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Niroshan_Perera" title="Niroshan Perera">Niroshan Perera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ashoka_Priyantha" title="Ashoka Priyantha">Ashoka Priyantha</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Sabaragamuwa_Province" title="Sabaragamuwa Province">Sabaragamuwa</a> (20)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Kegalle_Electoral_District" title="Kegalle Electoral District">Kegalle</a> (9)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tharaka_Balasuriya" title="Tharaka Balasuriya">Tharaka Balasuriya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kabir_Hashim" title="Kabir Hashim">Kabir Hashim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kanaka_Herath" title="Kanaka Herath">Kanaka Herath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dushmantha_Mithrapala" title="Dushmantha Mithrapala">Dushmantha Mithrapala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sujith_Sanjaya_Perera" title="Sujith Sanjaya Perera">Sujith Sanjaya Perera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Champika_Premadasa" title="Champika Premadasa">Champika Premadasa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sandith_Samarasinghe" title="Sandith Samarasinghe">Sandith Samarasinghe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ranjith_Siyambalapitiya" title="Ranjith Siyambalapitiya">Ranjith Siyambalapitiya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thusitha_Wijemanne" title="Thusitha Wijemanne">Thusitha Wijemanne</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Ratnapura_Electoral_District" title="Ratnapura Electoral District">Ratnapura</a> (11)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thalatha_Atukorale" title="Thalatha Atukorale">Thalatha Atukorale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ranjith_de_Zoysa" title="Ranjith de Zoysa">Ranjith de Zoysa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dunesh_Gankanda" title="Dunesh Gankanda">Dunesh Gankanda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Premalal_Jayasekara" title="Premalal Jayasekara">Premalal Jayasekara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vasudeva_Nanayakkara" title="Vasudeva Nanayakkara">Vasudeva Nanayakkara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karu_Paranawithana" title="Karu Paranawithana">Karu Paranawithana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Seneviratne" title="John Seneviratne">John Seneviratne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Janaka_Wakkumbura" title="Janaka Wakkumbura">Janaka Wakkumbura</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pavithra_Devi_Wanniarachchi" class="mw-redirect" title="Pavithra Devi Wanniarachchi">Pavithra Devi Wanniarachchi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._A._Wijethunga" title="A. A. Wijethunga">A. A. Wijethunga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hesha_Withanage" title="Hesha Withanage">Hesha Withanage</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Southern_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Southern Province, Sri Lanka">Southern</a> (25)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Galle_Electoral_District" title="Galle Electoral District">Galle</a> (10)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vajira_Abeywardena" title="Vajira Abeywardena">Vajira Abeywardena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bandula_Lal_Bandarigoda" title="Bandula Lal Bandarigoda">Bandula Lal Bandarigoda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mohan_De_Silva_(politician)" title="Mohan De Silva (politician)">Mohan de Silva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wijepala_Hettiarachchi" title="Wijepala Hettiarachchi">Wijepala Hettiarachchi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gayantha_Karunathilaka" title="Gayantha Karunathilaka">Gayantha Karunathilaka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geetha_Kumarasinghe" title="Geetha Kumarasinghe">Geetha Kumarasinghe</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Piyasena_Gamage" title="Piyasena Gamage">Piyasena Gamage</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nishantha_Muthuhettigamage" title="Nishantha Muthuhettigamage">Nishantha Muthuhettigamage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manusha_Nanayakkara" title="Manusha Nanayakkara">Manusha Nanayakkara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramesh_Pathirana" title="Ramesh Pathirana">Ramesh Pathirana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chandima_Weerakkody" title="Chandima Weerakkody">Chandima Weerakkody</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Hambantota_Electoral_District" title="Hambantota Electoral District">Hambantota</a> (7)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mahinda_Amaraweera" title="Mahinda Amaraweera">Mahinda Amaraweera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._V._Chanaka" title="D. V. Chanaka">D. V. Chanaka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nihal_Galappaththi" title="Nihal Galappaththi">Nihal Galappaththi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sajith_Premadasa" title="Sajith Premadasa">Sajith Premadasa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chamal_Rajapaksa" title="Chamal Rajapaksa">Chamal Rajapaksa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Namal_Rajapaksa" title="Namal Rajapaksa">Namal Rajapaksa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dilip_Wedaarachchi" title="Dilip Wedaarachchi">Dilip Wedaarachchi</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Matara_Electoral_District" title="Matara Electoral District">Matara</a> (8)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mahinda_Yapa_Abeywardena" title="Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena">Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dullas_Alahapperuma" title="Dullas Alahapperuma">Dullas Alahapperuma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chandrasiri_Gajadeera" title="Chandrasiri Gajadeera">Chandrasiri Gajadeera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhika_Pathirana" title="Buddhika Pathirana">Buddhika Pathirana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Niroshan_Premaratne" title="Niroshan Premaratne">Niroshan Premaratne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sagala_Ratnayaka" title="Sagala Ratnayaka">Sagala Ratnayaka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mangala_Samaraweera" title="Mangala Samaraweera">Mangala Samaraweera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kanchana_Wijesekera" title="Kanchana Wijesekera">Kanchana Wijesekera</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Uva_Province" title="Uva Province">Uva</a> (13)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Badulla_Electoral_District" title="Badulla Electoral District">Badulla</a> (8)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/A._Aravind_Kumar" title="A. Aravind Kumar">A. 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href="/wiki/Rauff_Hakeem" title="Rauff Hakeem">Rauff Hakeem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._H._A._Haleem" title="M. H. A. Haleem">M. H. A. Haleem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._Velu_Kumar" title="M. Velu Kumar">M. Velu Kumar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lakshman_Kiriella" title="Lakshman Kiriella">Lakshman Kiriella</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Matale_Electoral_District" title="Matale Electoral District">Matale</a> (5)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Janaka_Bandara_Tennakoon" title="Janaka Bandara Tennakoon">Janaka Bandara Tennakoon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nalaka_Kottegoda" title="Nalaka Kottegoda">Nalaka Kottegoda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pramitha_Tennakoon" title="Pramitha Tennakoon">Pramitha Tennakoon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rohana_Dissanayake" title="Rohana Dissanayake">Rohana Dissanayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rohini_Kumari_Wijerathna" title="Rohini Kumari Wijerathna">Rohini Kumari Wijerathna</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Nuwara_Eliya_Electoral_District" title="Nuwara Eliya Electoral District">Nuwara Eliya</a> (8)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jeevan_Thondaman" title="Jeevan Thondaman">Jeevan Thondaman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._B._Ratnayake" title="C. B. Ratnayake">C. B. Ratnayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._B._Dissanayake" title="S. B. Dissanayake">S. B. Dissanayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marudapandy_Rameshwaran" class="mw-redirect" title="Marudapandy Rameshwaran">Marudapandy Rameshwaran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nimal_Piyatissa" title="Nimal Piyatissa">Nimal Piyatissa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palani_Digambaran" title="Palani Digambaran">Palani Digambaran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Velusami_Radhakrishnan" title="Velusami Radhakrishnan">Velusami Radhakrishnan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mailvaganam_Udayakumar" class="mw-redirect" title="Mailvaganam Udayakumar">Mailvaganam Udayakumar</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Eastern Province, Sri Lanka">Eastern</a> (16)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Ampara_Electoral_District" title="Ampara Electoral District">Ampara</a> (7)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wimalaweera_Dissanayake" title="Wimalaweera Dissanayake">Wimalaweera Dissanayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._Weerasingha" title="D. Weerasingha">D. Weerasingha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thilak_Rajapaksha" title="Thilak Rajapaksha">Thilak Rajapaksha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H._M._M._Harees" title="H. M. M. Harees">H. M. M. Harees</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cassim_Faizal" title="Cassim Faizal">Cassim Faizal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muszhaaraff_Muthunabeen" class="mw-redirect" title="Muszhaaraff Muthunabeen">Muszhaaraff Muthunabeen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lebbe_Marikkar" class="mw-redirect" title="Lebbe Marikkar">Lebbe Marikkar</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Batticaloa_Electoral_District" title="Batticaloa Electoral District">Batticaloa</a> (5)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rahul_Rajapuththiran" class="mw-redirect" title="Rahul Rajapuththiran">Rahul Rajapuththiran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kovinthan_Karunakaram" class="mw-redirect" title="Kovinthan Karunakaram">Kovinthan Karunakaram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sivanesathurai_Chandrakanthan" class="mw-redirect" title="Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan">Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ahamed_Nazeer_Zainulabdeen" title="Ahamed Nazeer Zainulabdeen">Ahamed Nazeer Zainulabdeen</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Seyed_Ali_Zahir_Moulana" title="Seyed Ali Zahir Moulana">Seyed Ali Zahir Moulana</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sathasivam_Viyalendiran" class="mw-redirect" title="Sathasivam Viyalendiran">Sathasivam Viyalendiran</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Trincomalee_Electoral_District" title="Trincomalee Electoral District">Trincomalee</a> (4)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shariff_Thowfeek" class="mw-redirect" title="Shariff Thowfeek">Shariff Thowfeek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imran_Maharoof" title="Imran Maharoof">Imran Maharoof</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kapila_Athukorala" title="Kapila Athukorala">Kapila Athukorala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._Sampanthan" title="R. Sampanthan">R. Sampanthan</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/K._S._Kugathasan" title="K. S. Kugathasan">K. S. Kugathasan</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._A._M._Maharoof" title="M. A. M. Maharoof">M. A. M. Maharoof</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Susantha_Punchinilame" title="Susantha Punchinilame">Susantha Punchinilame</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Northern_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Northern Province, Sri Lanka">Northern</a> (13)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Jaffna_Electoral_District" title="Jaffna Electoral District">Jaffna</a> (7)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/S._Sritharan" class="mw-redirect" title="S. Sritharan">S. Sritharan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._A._Sumanthiran" title="M. A. Sumanthiran">M. A. Sumanthiran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._Siddarthan" title="D. Siddarthan">D. Siddarthan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gankesar_Ponnambalam" class="mw-redirect" title="Gankesar Ponnambalam">Gankesar Ponnambalam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Angajan_Ramanathan" title="Angajan Ramanathan">Angajan Ramanathan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Douglas_Devananda" title="Douglas Devananda">Douglas Devananda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vishwalingam_Vickneshwaran" class="mw-redirect" title="Vishwalingam Vickneshwaran">Vishwalingam Vickneshwaran</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Vanni_Electoral_District" title="Vanni Electoral District">Vanni</a> (6)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Nirmalanathan" title="Charles Nirmalanathan">Charles Nirmalanathan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Selvam_Adaikalanathan" title="Selvam Adaikalanathan">Selvam Adaikalanathan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._Noharathalingam" class="mw-redirect" title="S. Noharathalingam">S. Noharathalingam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._Kader_Masthan" title="K. Kader Masthan">K. Kader Masthan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rishad_Bathiudeen" title="Rishad Bathiudeen">Rishad Bathiudeen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kulasingam_Thileepan" title="Kulasingam Thileepan">Kulasingam Thileepan</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/North_Central_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="North Central Province, Sri Lanka">North Central</a> (14)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Anuradhapura_Electoral_District" title="Anuradhapura Electoral District">Anuradhapura</a> (9)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/S._M._Chandrasena" title="S. M. Chandrasena">S. M. Chandrasena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Channa_Jayasumana" title="Channa Jayasumana">Channa Jayasumana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uddika_Premarathna" title="Uddika Premarathna">Uddika Premarathna</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sarath_Chandrasiri_Muthukumarana" title="Sarath Chandrasiri Muthukumarana">S.C. Muthukumarana</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asanka_Shehan_Semasinghe" title="Asanka Shehan Semasinghe">Asanka Shehan Semasinghe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duminda_Dissanayake" title="Duminda Dissanayake">Duminda Dissanayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._H._Nandasena" title="K. H. Nandasena">K. H. Nandasena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._P._S._Kumarasiri" title="K. P. S. Kumarasiri">K. P. S. Kumarasiri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ishak_Rahuman" title="Ishak Rahuman">Ishak Rahuman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rohana_Bandara" title="Rohana Bandara">Rohana Bandara</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Polonnaruwa_Electoral_District" title="Polonnaruwa Electoral District">Polonnaruwa</a> (5)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maithripala_Sirisena" title="Maithripala Sirisena">Maithripala Sirisena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roshan_Ranasinghe" title="Roshan Ranasinghe">Roshan Ranasinghe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siripala_Gamalath" title="Siripala Gamalath">Siripala Gamalath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amarakeerthi_Athukorala" title="Amarakeerthi Athukorala">Amarakeerthi Athukorala</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jagath_Samarawickrama" title="Jagath Samarawickrama">Jagath Samarawickrama</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kins_Nelson" title="Kins Nelson">Kins Nelson</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/North_Western_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="North Western Province, Sri Lanka">North Western</a> (24)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Kurunegala_Electoral_District" title="Kurunegala Electoral District">Kurunegala</a> (15)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Mahinda Rajapaksa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnston_Fernando" title="Johnston Fernando">Johnston Fernando</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gunapala_Rathnasekara" title="Gunapala Rathnasekara">Gunapala Rathnasekara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dayasiri_Jayasekara" title="Dayasiri Jayasekara">Dayasiri Jayasekara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asanka_Navarathna" class="mw-redirect" title="Asanka Navarathna">Asanka Navarathna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samanpriya_Herath" title="Samanpriya Herath">Samanpriya Herath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._B._Herath" title="D. B. Herath">D. B. Herath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anura_Priyadharshana_Yapa" title="Anura Priyadharshana Yapa">Anura Priyadharshana Yapa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jayarathna_Herath" title="Jayarathna Herath">Jayarathna Herath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._W._Shantha_Bandara" title="K. W. Shantha Bandara">Shantha Bandara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sumith_Udukumbura" title="Sumith Udukumbura">Sumith Udukumbura</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nalin_Bandara" title="Nalin Bandara">Nalin Bandara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._C._Alawathuwala" title="J. C. Alawathuwala">J. C. Alawathuwala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ashoka_Abeysinghe" title="Ashoka Abeysinghe">Ashoka Abeysinghe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thushara_Indunil" title="Thushara Indunil">Thushara Indunil</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Puttalam_Electoral_District" title="Puttalam Electoral District">Puttalam</a> (9)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sanath_Nishantha" title="Sanath Nishantha">Sanath Nishantha</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jagath_Priyankara" title="Jagath Priyankara">Jagath Priyankara</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Piyankara_Jayaratne" title="Piyankara Jayaratne">Piyankara Jayaratne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arundika_Fernando" title="Arundika Fernando">Arundika Fernando</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chinthaka_Mayadunne" title="Chinthaka Mayadunne">Chinthaka Mayadunne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ashoka_Priyantha" title="Ashoka Priyantha">Ashoka Priyantha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hector_Appuhamy" title="Hector Appuhamy">Hector Appuhamy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Niroshan_Nanayakkara" class="mw-redirect" title="Niroshan Nanayakkara">Niroshan Nanayakkara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Niroshan_Perera" title="Niroshan Perera">Niroshan Perera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ali_Sabri_Raheem" title="Ali Sabri Raheem">Ali Sabri Raheem</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Sabaragamuwa_Province" title="Sabaragamuwa Province">Sabaragamuwa</a> (20)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Kegalle_Electoral_District" title="Kegalle Electoral District">Kegalle</a> (9)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kanaka_Herath" title="Kanaka Herath">Kanaka Herath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ranjith_Siyambalapitiya" title="Ranjith Siyambalapitiya">Ranjith Siyambalapitiya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tharaka_Balasuriya" title="Tharaka Balasuriya">Tharaka Balasuriya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rajika_Wickramasinghe" title="Rajika Wickramasinghe">Rajika Wickramasinghe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dushmantha_Mithrapala" title="Dushmantha Mithrapala">Dushmantha Mithrapala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Udayakantha_Gunathilaka" title="Udayakantha Gunathilaka">Udayakantha Gunathilaka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sudath_Manjula" title="Sudath Manjula">Sudath Manjula</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kabir_Hashim" title="Kabir Hashim">Kabir Hashim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sujith_Sanjaya_Perera" title="Sujith Sanjaya Perera">Sujith Sanjaya Perera</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Ratnapura_Electoral_District" title="Ratnapura Electoral District">Ratnapura</a> (11)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pavithra_Devi_Wanniarachchi" class="mw-redirect" title="Pavithra Devi Wanniarachchi">Pavithra Devi Wanniarachchi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Premalal_Jayasekara" title="Premalal Jayasekara">Premalal Jayasekara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Janaka_Wakkumbura" title="Janaka Wakkumbura">Janaka Wakkumbura</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gamini_Waleboda" title="Gamini Waleboda">Gamini Waleboda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akila_Ellawala" title="Akila Ellawala">Akila Ellawala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vasudeva_Nanayakkara" title="Vasudeva Nanayakkara">Vasudeva Nanayakkara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muditha_Prishanthi" title="Muditha Prishanthi">Muditha Prishanthi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Seneviratne" title="John Seneviratne">John Seneviratne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hesha_Withanage" title="Hesha Withanage">Hesha Withanage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Priyantha_Liyanage" title="Priyantha Liyanage">Priyantha Liyanage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thalatha_Atukorale" title="Thalatha Atukorale">Thalatha Atukorale</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Karu_Paranawithana" title="Karu Paranawithana">Karu Paranawithana</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Southern_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Southern Province, Sri Lanka">Southern</a> (25)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Galle_Electoral_District" title="Galle Electoral District">Galle</a> (9)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ramesh_Pathirana" title="Ramesh Pathirana">Ramesh Pathirana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chaminda_Sampath" title="Chaminda Sampath">Chaminda Sampath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mohan_Priyadarshana_De_Silva" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohan Priyadarshana De Silva">Mohan Priyadarshana De Silva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chandima_Weerakkody" title="Chandima Weerakkody">Chandima Weerakkody</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isuru_Dodangoda" title="Isuru Dodangoda">Isuru Dodangoda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shan_Wijayalal_De_Silva" title="Shan Wijayalal De Silva">Shan Wijayalal De Silva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geetha_Kumarasinghe" title="Geetha Kumarasinghe">Geetha Kumarasinghe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gayantha_Karunathilaka" title="Gayantha Karunathilaka">Gayantha Karunathilaka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manusha_Nanayakkara" title="Manusha Nanayakkara">Manusha Nanayakkara</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bandula_Lal_Bandarigoda" title="Bandula Lal Bandarigoda">Bandula Lal Bandarigoda</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Hambantota_Electoral_District" title="Hambantota Electoral District">Hambantota</a> (7)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Namal_Rajapaksa" title="Namal Rajapaksa">Namal Rajapaksa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._V._Chanaka" title="D. V. Chanaka">D. V. Chanaka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahinda_Amaraweera" title="Mahinda Amaraweera">Mahinda Amaraweera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chamal_Rajapaksa" title="Chamal Rajapaksa">Chamal Rajapaksa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Upul_Galappaththi" title="Upul Galappaththi">Upul Galappaththi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ajith_Rajapakse" title="Ajith Rajapakse">Ajith Rajapakse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dilip_Wedaarachchi" title="Dilip Wedaarachchi">Dilip Wedaarachchi</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Matara_Electoral_District" title="Matara Electoral District">Matara</a> (7)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nipuna_Ranawaka" title="Nipuna Ranawaka">Nipuna Ranawaka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karunadasa_Kodithuwakku" class="mw-redirect" title="Karunadasa Kodithuwakku">Karunadasa Kodithuwakku</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dullas_Alahapperuma" title="Dullas Alahapperuma">Dullas Alahapperuma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kanchana_Wijesekera" title="Kanchana Wijesekera">Kanchana Wijesekera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahinda_Yapa_Abeywardena" title="Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena">Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weerasumana_Weerasinghe" title="Weerasumana Weerasinghe">Weerasumana Weerasinghe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhika_Pathirana" title="Buddhika Pathirana">Buddhika Pathirana</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Uva_Province" title="Uva Province">Uva</a> (13)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Badulla_Electoral_District" title="Badulla Electoral District">Badulla</a> (9)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nimal_Siripala_de_Silva" title="Nimal Siripala de Silva">Nimal Siripala de Silva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sudarshana_Denipitiya" title="Sudarshana Denipitiya">Sudarshana Denipitiya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amith_Thenuka_Vidanagamage" title="Amith Thenuka Vidanagamage">Amith Thenuka Vidanagamage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chamara_Sampath_Dassanayake" title="Chamara Sampath Dassanayake">Chamara Sampath Dassanayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dilan_Perera" title="Dilan Perera">Dilan Perera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chaminda_Thisakutti" class="mw-redirect" title="Chaminda Thisakutti">Chaminda Thisakutti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vadivel_Suresh" title="Vadivel Suresh">Vadivel Suresh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._Aravind_Kumar" title="A. Aravind Kumar">A. Aravind Kumar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chaminda_Wijesiri" title="Chaminda Wijesiri">Chaminda Wijesiri</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nayana_Wasalathilake" title="Nayana Wasalathilake">Nayana Wasalathilake</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Monaragala_Electoral_District" title="Monaragala Electoral District">Monaragala</a> (6)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shasheendra_Rajapaksa" title="Shasheendra Rajapaksa">Shasheendra Rajapaksa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kumarasiri_Rathnayake" title="Kumarasiri Rathnayake">Kumarasiri Rathnayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vijitha_Berugoda" title="Vijitha Berugoda">Vijitha Berugoda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jagath_Pushpakumara" title="Jagath Pushpakumara">Jagath Pushpakumara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gayashan_Nawananda" title="Gayashan Nawananda">Gayashan Nawananda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/W._H._M._Dharmasena" title="W. H. M. Dharmasena">W. H. M. Dharmasena</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Western_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Western Province, Sri Lanka">Western</a> (47)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Colombo_Electoral_District" title="Colombo Electoral District">Colombo</a> (19)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sarath_Weerasekara" title="Sarath Weerasekara">Sarath Weerasekara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wimal_Weerawansa" title="Wimal Weerawansa">Wimal Weerawansa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Udaya_Gammanpila" title="Udaya Gammanpila">Udaya Gammanpila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wijeyadasa_Rajapakshe" title="Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe">Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bandula_Gunawardane" title="Bandula Gunawardane">Bandula Gunawardane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Predeep_Saman_Kumara" class="mw-redirect" title="Predeep Saman Kumara">Predeep Saman Kumara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dinesh_Gunawardena" title="Dinesh Gunawardena">Dinesh Gunawardena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madhura_Withanage" title="Madhura Withanage">Madhura Withanage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Premnath_C._Dolawaththa" title="Premnath C. 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Ganeshan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anura_Kumara_Dissanayake" title="Anura Kumara Dissanayake">Anura Kumara Dissanayake</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lakshman_Nipuna_Arachchi" title="Lakshman Nipuna Arachchi">Lakshman Nipuna Arachchi</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Gampaha_Electoral_District" title="Gampaha Electoral District">Gampaha</a> (18)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nalaka_Godahewa" title="Nalaka Godahewa">Nalaka Godahewa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prasanna_Ranatunga" title="Prasanna Ranatunga">Prasanna Ranatunga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indika_Anuruddha" title="Indika Anuruddha">Indika Anuruddha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sisira_Jayakody" title="Sisira Jayakody">Sisira Jayakody</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nimal_Lanza" title="Nimal Lanza">Nimal Lanza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sahan_Pradeep_Withana" title="Sahan Pradeep Withana">Sahan Pradeep Withana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sudarshani_Fernandopulle" title="Sudarshani Fernandopulle">Sudarshani Fernandopulle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prasanna_Ranaweera" title="Prasanna Ranaweera">Prasanna Ranaweera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harshani_Gunawardhana" class="mw-redirect" title="Harshani Gunawardhana">Harshani Gunawardhana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lasantha_Alagiyawanna" title="Lasantha Alagiyawanna">Lasantha Alagiyawanna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nalin_Ruwanjiwa_Fernando" class="mw-redirect" title="Nalin Ruwanjiwa Fernando">Nalin Ruwanjiwa Fernando</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milan_Sajith_Jayathilake" class="mw-redirect" title="Milan Sajith Jayathilake">Milan Sajith Jayathilake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Upul_Mahendra_Rajapaksha" class="mw-redirect" title="Upul Mahendra Rajapaksha">Upul Mahendra Rajapaksha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarath_Fonseka" title="Sarath Fonseka">Sarath Fonseka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ranjan_Ramanayake" title="Ranjan Ramanayake">Ranjan Ramanayake</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ajith_Mannapperuma" title="Ajith Mannapperuma">Ajith Mannapperuma</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harshana_Rajakaruna" title="Harshana Rajakaruna">Harshana Rajakaruna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kavinda_Jayawardena" title="Kavinda Jayawardena">Kavinda Jayawardena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vijitha_Herath" title="Vijitha Herath">Vijitha Herath</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Kalutara_Electoral_District" title="Kalutara Electoral District">Kalutara</a> (10)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vidura_Wickremanayake" title="Vidura Wickremanayake">Vidura Wickremanayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rohitha_Abeygunawardena" title="Rohitha Abeygunawardena">Rohitha Abeygunawardena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sanjeeva_Edirimanna" title="Sanjeeva Edirimanna">Sanjeeva Edirimanna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Piyal_Nishantha" class="mw-redirect" title="Piyal Nishantha">Piyal Nishantha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S.A._Jayantha" class="mw-redirect" title="S.A. 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B. Nawinne">S. B. Nawinne</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herath_Banda_Wanninayaka&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Herath Banda Wanninayaka (page does not exist)">Herath Banda Wanninayaka</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=H._M._A._Loku_Bandara&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="H. M. A. Loku Bandara (page does not exist)">H. M. A. Loku Bandara</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=A._M._Munidasa_Premachandra&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="A. M. Munidasa Premachandra (page does not exist)">A. M. 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Party">2015–2024</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Freedom_Party#Internal_crisis" title="Sri Lanka Freedom Party">2024</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:rgb(0, 0, 255);color:white;"><a href="/wiki/Chairman_of_the_Sri_Lanka_Freedom_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Chairman of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party"><span style="color:white">Leaders</span></a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/S._W._R._D._Bandaranaike" title="S. 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P. de Silva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sirimavo_Bandaranaike" title="Sirimavo Bandaranaike">Sirimavo Bandaranaike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chandrika_Kumaratunga" title="Chandrika Kumaratunga">Chandrika Kumaratunga</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Mahinda Rajapaksa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maithripala_Sirisena" title="Maithripala Sirisena">Maithripala Sirisena</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:rgb(0, 0, 255);color:white;">General-Secretaries</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bernard_Aluwihare" title="Bernard Aluwihare">Bernard Aluwihare</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Badi-ud-din_Mahmud" title="Badi-ud-din Mahmud">Badi-ud-din Mahmud</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patrick_de_Silva_Kularatne" title="Patrick de Silva Kularatne">Patrick de Silva Kularatne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dharmasiri_Senanayake" title="Dharmasiri Senanayake">Dharmasiri Senanayake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._B._Dissanayake" title="S. 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class="new" title="Sri Lanka Nidahas Fishermen and Domestic Industrialists organization (page does not exist)">Sri Lanka Nidahas Fishermen and Domestic Industrialists organization</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sri_Lanka_Nidahas_Cultural_Organization&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sri Lanka Nidahas Cultural Organization (page does not exist)">Sri Lanka Nidahas Cultural Organization</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sri_Lanka_Nidahas_Lawyers_Organization&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sri Lanka Nidahas Lawyers Organization (page does not exist)">Sri Lanka Nidahas Lawyers Organization</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sri_Lanka_Nidahas_Provincial_Council_members%E2%80%99_Association&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sri Lanka Nidahas Provincial Council members’ Association (page does not exist)">Sri Lanka Nidahas Provincial Council members’ Association</a></li> <li><a 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Association</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nil_Balakaya&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nil Balakaya (page does not exist)">Nil Balakaya</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:rgb(0, 0, 255);color:white;">Alliances</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mahajana_Eksath_Peramuna_(1956)" title="Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (1956)">Mahajana Eksath Peramuna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Front_(Sri_Lanka)" title="United Front (Sri Lanka)">United Front</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Alliance_(Sri_Lanka)" title="People's Alliance (Sri Lanka)">People's Alliance (PA)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_People%27s_Freedom_Alliance" title="United People's Freedom Alliance">United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_People%27s_Freedom_Alliance" title="Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance">Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance (SLPFA)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freedom_People%27s_Alliance" title="Freedom People's Alliance">Freedom People's Alliance (FPA)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Democratic_Front_(Sri_Lanka)" title="New Democratic Front (Sri Lanka)">New Democratic Front (NDF)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:rgb(0, 0, 255);color:white;">Factions & spin offs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Freedom_Socialist_Party" title="Sri Lanka Freedom Socialist Party">Sri Lanka Freedom Socialist Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Podujana_Peramuna" title="Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna">Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Lanka_Freedom_Party" title="New Lanka Freedom Party">New Lanka Freedom Party</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:rgb(0, 0, 255);color:white;">Related organisations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Sama_Samaja_Party" title="Sri Lanka Sama Samaja Party">Sri Lanka Sama Samaja Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Mahajana_Pakshaya" title="Sri Lanka Mahajana Pakshaya">Sri Lanka Mahajana Pakshaya</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:rgb(0, 0, 255);color:white;">Related articles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Sri_Lanka_Freedom_Party_MPs" title="List of Sri Lanka Freedom Party MPs">List of MPs</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link 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