War veteran and Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa triumphed in a hard-fought electoral battle to win the Presidency yesterday with a majority of 1,360,016 votes.Rajapaksa took a comfortable 52.25 per cent of valid votes to convincingly emerge as the Seventh Executive President yesterday (17th) roundly defeating his main opponent, UNP-led New Democratic Front (NDF) presidential candidate Sajith Premadasa.
