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    1 month ago

    The incredibly recent Sri Lankan election enters the chat… and feels sad at being ignored.

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        1 month ago

        Sri Lankans (of all varieties - complicated history) have elected a left leaning coalition. It’s very unusual the majority of every “section” of Sri Lanka to throw their support behind the same candidate / party (again - historical reasons.)

        Here’s a BBC link. It appears to be reasonably factual as I understand it and is a good synopsis:

        https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crr9n2w0lyzo