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Sri Lanka in shaky coalition amid fears for peace and economy
AFP, April, 2004
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COLOMBO (AFP) — Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga was set to win parliamentary elections but failed to secure an absolute majority needed for the stability to revive peace talks with Tamil Tiger rebels.
Results of Friday's election showed that Kumaratunga's Freedom Alliance had won about 105 seats in the 225-member assembly, pushing Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's United National Party into second position with 82 seats.
Sri Lanka's 13th parliament since independence from Britain in 1948 was set to be one of its most ethnically and religiously polarised, with Tiger proxies securing 21 seats and nationalist Buddhist monks winning nine.
Analysts and diplomats expressed fears that a weak government coupled with a highly militant parliament could further undermine the already faltering attempts to end three decades of ethnic bloodshed.
"I don't think you could ask for a more militant parliament in Sri Lanka than this," said an ...
