As Sri Lanka prepares to vote on Wednesday, the bets are not on who will win the Parliamentary election. Rather, they are on the margin of victory for Mahinda Rajapaksa — former Sri Lanka President, interim Prime Minister, and leader of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP).
It remains a question of what the final tally will be — a simple or brute majority in the 225-member legislature.
“The Rajapaksa regime is going all out to get a two-third majority in Parliament after the forthcoming elections on August 5. The avowed objective of such a steam-roller majority is to promulgate a new

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