Sri Lanka's ruling party sweeps local polls
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Sri Lanka's ruling party swept two local councils in an election seen as a referendum on the administration's war against Tamil rebels.
President Mahinda Rajapakse's United People's Freedom Alliance won the provincial councils comfortably by polling more than 55 percent.
More than 65 percent of the 2.1 million electorate turned out to vote.
Colombo has scrapped a truce with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and has poured a record 1.5 billion dollars in an all-out bid to crush the rebels.
