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Rajapaksa brothers win by landslide in Sri Lanka's election

by Associated Press
| August 6, 2020 6:03 PM

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s powerful Rajapaksa brothers secured a landslide victory in the parliamentary election, giving them nearly the two-thirds majority of seats required to make constitutional changes, according to results released Friday.

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