COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's National People's Power of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Friday swept the parliamentary elections by winning a two-thirds majority, and also dominating the Jaffna electoral district - the heartland of the nation's Tamil minority.
The NPP, which contested under the Malimawa (compass) symbol, secured 159 out of the 225 seats in the parliament, the first time any party has won a two-thirds majority under the country's proportional representation system introduced in 1978.
The NPP got over 6.8 million or 61 per cent of the votes counted, according to the Election Commission of Sri Lanka.
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