Nationalist Rajapaksa declared Sri Lanka president

Sri Lanka's former civil wartime defence chief Gotabaya Rajapaksa has been declared the winner in the presidential election, after promising to secure the country against militant threats following Easter bombings this year.

"As we usher in a new journey for Sri Lanka, we must remember that all Sri Lankans are part of this journey. Let us rejoice peacefully, with dignity and discipline in the same manner in which we campaigned," he said in a tweet. Mr Rajapaksa, 70, oversaw the military defeat of Tamil separatists under his brother and then president MahindaRajapaksa 10 years ago.

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