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Six months after his defeat in presidential elections, Sri Lanka’s former president took the stage on Wednesday in the gardens of his home in this southern village to tell a crowd of thousands that he would lead an opposition group in parliamentary elections in August.via: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/02/world/asia/ex-president-of-sri-lanka-says-hell-lead-opposition-in-elections.html?_r=0