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‘Still work to be done’

By: Eastern Eye Staff

SRI LANKAN PRESIDENT HINTS HE WILL RUN IN 2020 AND NOT RETIRE SRI LANKA’S president announced on Monday (7) that he will not retire at the end of his term despite a previous pledge, and said he will seek to form a new government exclud­ing politicians who have committed murder. Maithripala Sirisena told a public rally in the former war zone of Batticaloa that he had unfinished business to attend to and no longer intends to retire in 2020 when his five-year term finishes. “There are many who ask if I will retire in 2020,” he said. “I will not retire.…

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