Heir apparent to Sri Lanka’s powerful Rajapaksa family will run in September’s presidential election
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The man who is considered the heir apparent to the powerful Rajapaksa family in Sri Lanka will contest the presidential election in September, his political party said Wednesday, in an apparent bid to regain his family’s lost power after a humiliating setback two years ago during an unprecedented economic crisis in the Indian ocean island nation. The Sri Lanka Peoples’ Front said the 38-year-old lawyer Namal Rajapaksa , the eldest son of former strongman president
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