Et foreløbigt resultat af præsidentvalget i Sri Lanka giver den siddende præsident Mahinda Rajapaksa en solid sejr over den nærmeste rival Sarth Fonseka, skriver nyhedstjenesten Al Jazeera onsdag.
Election officials said on Wednesday that Rajapaksa had about 60 per cent and Fonseka had about 40 per cent with around two million votes counted.
But millions of votes had yet to be tallied following Tuesday’s high turnout of 70-80 per cent of 14 million registered voters.
Despite some minor explosions and other incidents in which no one was hurt, the first peacetime vote in a quarter century went ahead smoothly. However there have been reports of some irregularities.
