Sri Lankan presidential election, 1988
- Sri Lankan presidential election, 1988
The 1988 Sri Lankan presidential election saw the United National Party retain the presidency.
Background
During the 1988 election, Sri Lanka was in chaos. In the north and east, soldiers of the Indian Peace-Keeping Force battled Tamil Tiger rebels. In the south, government death squads engaged in deadly violence with equally brutal militants of the Sinhala-nationalist JVP. Effective campaigning by the democratic opposition was barely possible.
Both of the major party candidates promised to abrogate the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord negotiated by outgoing UNP president J.R. Jayewardene and ask Indian troops to leave the country.
Voting was not held in Tiger-controlled areas of the north and east, and violence marred election day in the south.
Results
Aided by its control of the state-owned media, the UNP candidate, Prime Minister Ranasinghe Premadasa, won a narrow but firm victory.
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