Celebrating victory

10 April 2010 09:22 am

Sri Lankan ruling party supporters fly national flags as they celebrate election victory in Colombo. Sri Lanka's
ruling party cruised to victory Friday in parliamentary elections but fell short of the two-thirds majority that would
have allowed President Mahinda Rajapakse to amend the constitution. Rajapakse's United People's Freedom
Alliance (UPFA) secured 117 seats in the 225-member assembly with another 45 seats left to be declared,
results released by the Elections Commissioner showed. AFP