Ex-Sri Lanka leader Rajapakse concedes election defeat
Posted by Editor on August 18, 2015 - 6:35 am
Sri Lanka’s former president Mahinda Rajapakse told AFP Tuesday that he had conceded defeat in parliamentary elections, but he will work as an opposition member of parliament.
“My dream of becoming prime minister has faded away,” Rajapakse told AFP. “I am conceding. We have lost a good fight.”
(AFP)
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