Gotabaya Rajapaksa, younger brother of opposition leader and former President Ma...
COLOMBO - Gotabaya Rajapaksa, younger brother of opposition leader and former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, has renounced U.S. citizenship, paving the way for him to make a bid for his country’s presidency.
He is popular among Sri Lanka’s politically powerful Sinhala Buddhist majority, which accounts for 70 percent of the country’s 21 million population. “I can say Gotabaya Rajapaksa has renounced his U.S. citizenship,” another brother, Basil Rajapaksa, a former economy minister, told a news conference on Thursday.
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