Abstract
Sri Lanka's third parliamentary election in three-and-a-half years, held on 2 April 2004, may have resolved the power struggle between the president and the prime minister - the issue that triggered the snap polls. But it has worsened prospects for peace with the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), who are fighting for a Tamil homeland in the northeast of the country. With the Marxist Sinhalese nationalist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, a party that staunchly opposes concessions to the Tamils, now a coalition partner in President Chandrika Kumaratunga's newly-elected minority government, and given the ramifications of a violent split in the ranks of the LTTE itself, the fragile two-year old peace process appears in jeopardy.
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