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Urgent: Ex-Sri Lankan president to contest polls

Xinhua, July 1, 2015 Adjust font size:

Former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse said on Wednesday that he will contest the August 17 parliamentary elections "on the request of the people" and will look to form a new government.

Rajapakse made the remarks a day after President Maithripala Sirisena officially announced that he would not nominate the former president as the prime ministerial candidate from the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA).

Rajapakse is a member of the UPFA chaired by Sirisena. Endi