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Rajapaksas win landslide in Sri Lanka election

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Beliatta, Aug 7 (EFE/EPA).- Sri Lanka's ruling Rajapaksa brothers won a landslide in the parliamentary election, according to the final results declared Friday, receiving a fresh mandate to cement their grip on power.The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) led by the President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's all-powerful elder brother Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa won 145 seats in the 225-member parliament.The main opposition United National Party (UNP), one of the oldest political groups in the country, led by former prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, was decimated as it secured a meager 2.15 percent votes and managed to win just one seat. (Camera: CHAMILA KARUNARATHNE). SHOT LIST: SRI LANKAN PRIME MINISTER ELECT MAHINDA RAJAPAKSA CELEBRATES AND GREETS PEOPLE AT HIS HOME IN BELIATTA, HAMBANTOTA, SRI LANKA.

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