Stay apart and bring a pen: Sri Lanka goes to the polls during pandemic

Rajapaksa expected to dominate elections held five months after president Gotabaya Rajapaksa sacked parliamentary assembly

Sri Lankans have begun voting in parliamentary elections twice delayed by the coronavirus, with results expected to further entrench the Rajapaksa family’s dominance of the island’s politics.

Voters have been asked to observe social distancing and bring their own pens to the polls – with special booths set up for those who are quarantining – for a contest that will end months of constitutional limbo in Sri Lanka.

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