COLOMBO (AFP) ??” Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga was place to win parliamentary elections if it be not that failed to secure an absolute majority indigenceed for the stability to revive peace talks with Tamil Tiger rebels.

COLOMBO (AFP) ??” Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga was place to win parliamentary elections if it be not that failed to secure an absolute majority indigenceed for the stability to revive peace talks with Tamil Tiger rebels.

eventuates of Friday's election showed that Kumaratunga's Freedom Alliance had won about 105 seats in the 225-member assembly, pushing Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's United National Party into next to the first position with 82 seats.

Sri Lanka's 13th parliament since independence from Britain in 1948 was fix to be one of its greatest in number ethnically and religiously polarised, with Tiger proxies securing 21 seats and nationalist Buddhist monk winning nine.

Analysts and diplomats exhibited fears that a weak restraint coupled with a highly militant parliament could further undermine the already faltering attempts to fall of the curtain three decades of ethnic bloodshed.

"I don't think you could ask for a more militant parliament in Sri Lanka than this," said an