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Political: Sri Lanka Goes To Snap Presidential Poll In January (RTTNews) - Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has announced snap presidential elections in January, two years ahead of schedule. Media and Information Minister Anura Priyadharshana Yapa told reporters that Rajapaksa made the announcement Monday after discussing it at a meeting of the leaders of his coalition partners. They endorsed his intention to run for re-election, Yapa added. The decision comes four days after Rajapaksa completed four years of his six-year term, which allows the incumbent president to call a new election. Official declaration regarding exact dates of the polls will be announced by the Commissioner of Elections later. Elected in 2005, Rajapaksa's six-year term ends in November 2011. The snap polls would cut two years from his regular term, but he is riding on popular support created by crushing a bloody insurgent fight by the Tamil rebels earlier this year and a convincing victory in recent southern provincial elections. An Opposition alliance led by former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is touting former armed forces chief General Sarath Fonseka, who successfully led the military's decades-old fight against the separatists, as a potential challenger to Rajapaksa. Fonseka, who has been Sri Lanka's army chief during the final three-year phase in the island-nation's civil war, was removed from the post after the mission was accomplished in May. However, he resigned as the armed forces chief on November 12. The term of the current parliament expires on April 2 next year. |
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