of people's minds and the we and the efficiency which the current government led by present gautami rajapaksa has managed things they contrast this fully a lot with the shambles we had just over a year ago when this country had one of the biggest bomb attacks in this country on easter sunday and there was a lot of uncertainty questions of national security so the is a p.p. government of the rajapakse is made strides in terms of proving and winning over the confidence of the public that they are doing is that they would be the best choice to sort of manage the lankan. sort of issues at the moment which the face coupled with that is a dismal performance of the previous government set up as the good governance government 5 you will sort of recall that they were the government that displaced in the rajapaksa in 2015 sweeping the boards and bringing a shock sort of defeat to rajapaksa but just within one term they have absolutely squandered that good will people have lost confidence in them and that is what we're seeing in terms of the shape of the vote saw $145.00 seats in total with the numbers

little more than 20 minutes or so you're going to have the 2 rajapaksa brothers that's president gautami rajapaksa and his elder brother the former president and incoming prime minister behind the rajapaksa essentially completing formalities these were the 2 main architects obviously of the reversal of the rajapaksa fortunes the return of the p.p. and the rajapakse is into power so i mean so that's what's going to happen it's a relatively simple ceremony but we need to take note of some of the symbolism here in this historic buddhist temple we have the buddhist clergy in full force obviously there are representatives from other religions and other communities but that saying hello buddhist identity is very much to the fore in terms of the community and the majority that came behind that rajapaksa. and ensure them this great victory and this massive victory at the recently concluded general election i mean you know how much of a comeback is this for the rajapaksa brothers. well put it this way nobody was surprised with the results i mean if that tells you anything because for the last couple of mon

be led by the rajapaksa to carry on with the work programme set out by president gautami rajapaksa in his election bid in 2019 it's called the stars for prosperity and aims to take sri lanka forward dealing with some of the pressing issues that this country faces now obviously the consolidation of the rajapaksa hold on power has been confirmed with the swearing in of my in the rajapaksa as we saw here at the calorie temple a little while ago but it also shows the kind of dynamic the family is now in charge and even when we saw the swearing in of the prime minister you had the president go to a beer or park say his younger brother who went around the table and actually worshiped his brother once he saw him in as prime minister these are some of the kind of ways the family operates obviously a number of siblings all of them involved in sri lankan politics now there have been some concerns about a potential reversal of some of the democratic institutions the achievement of the last constitution because the right boxes have said that with control of parliament in a 2 thirds majority one o

be led by the rajapaksa to carry on with the work program set out by president gautami rajapaksa in his election bid in 2019 it's called the stars for prosperity and aims to take sri lanka forward dealing with some of the pressing issues that this country faces now obviously the consolidation of the rajapaksa hold on power has been confirmed with the swearing in of my in the rajapaksa as we saw here at the calorie temple a little while ago but it also shows the kind of dynamic the family is now in charge and even when we saw the swearing in of the prime minister you had the president go tubby rajapaksa his younger brother who went around the table and actually worshiped his brother once he saw him in as prime minister these are some of the kind of ways the family operates obviously a number of siblings all of them involved in sri lankan politics now there have been some concerns about a potential reversal of some of the democratic institutions the achievements of the last constitution because the right boxes have said that with control of parliament in a 2 thirds majority one of their t