End of the road for Mahinda Rajapaksa -- Sri Lanka's 'warrior king'?
By Ravi Agrawal-Wed August 19, 2015
Delhi (CNN)In hindsight the odds were stacked against such a major comeback -- even for Sri Lanka's most powerful politician of the last decade.
Delhi (CNN)In hindsight the odds were stacked against such a major comeback -- even for Sri Lanka's most powerful politician of the last decade.
Former president Mahinda Rajapaksa won his seat in Sri Lanka's parliamentary elections this week, but his Freedom Party won only 42% of the seats on offer -- not enough to give him a chance of becoming prime minister, Vladimir Putin-style.
Rajapaksa then resolved to contest parliamentary elections in the hope of being named prime minister, despite new president Maithripala Sirisena openly saying he would not support his candidacy.
