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Rajapakse or Rajapaksa, Mahinda

Rajapakse or Rajapaksa, Mahinda (mähin'dä räjäpäk'su) [key], 1945–, Sri Lankan political leader. A lawyer from a political family, he was first elected to parliament in 1970 as member of the Sri Lanka Freedom party. From 1994 to 2001 he served as minister of labor and of fisheries. Rajapakse became opposition leader in 2002 and prime minister in 2004. In 2005 he was elected president of Sri Lanka, having formed an alliance with Marxist and Buddhist nationalists and advocated a harder line with rebel Tamils.

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