Explanation

Sri Lanka’s former President Mahinda Rajapaksa was sworn in as the prime minister for the fourth time on August 9, 2020 after his party secured a landslide victory in parliamentary elections that cemented his family’s hold on power.

Mahinda Rajapaksa served as the island nations president from 2005 to 2015 and is highly popular among the ethnic majority Sinhalese for ending the country’s 25-year civil war against Tamil rebels in 2009.

He was first elected prime minister in 2004 and again appointed for brief periods in 2018 and 2019.

Sri Lanka Peoples Front the party led by the Rajapaksa brothers won 145 seats in the 225-member Parliament in the election held in August 2020.