Sri Lanka’s ruling party presidential candidate concedes defeat to rival Gotabaya Rajapaksa in the Indian Ocean island nation’s election.
Sri Lanka's former Defense Secretary and presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa, center, leaves a polling station after casting his vote in Embuldeniya, on the outskirts of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, Nov. 16, 2019. Polls opened in Sri Lanka’s presidential election Saturday after weeks of campaigning that largely focused on national security and religious extremism in the backdrop of the deadly Islamic State-inspired suicide bomb attacks on Easter Sunday.
“It’s a people’s victory. The sound policies he put across have been well received by the people,” said Rajapaksa spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella. Rajapaksa campaigned on a platform of national security, joining the race just days after the Easter Day attack by Islamic State-group inspired militants killed 269 people.
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