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He served as the sixth President of Sri Lanka from to ; the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from to , , and to ; [ 2 ] the Leader of the Opposition from to and to , and the Minister of Finance from to and to Rajapaksa is a lawyer by profession and was first elected to the Parliament of Sri Lanka in He served as the leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party from to Rajapaksa was sworn in for his first six-year term as president on 19 November He was subsequently re-elected in for a second term.

Later that year, Rajapaksa unsuccessfully sought to become prime minister in the parliamentary election ; that year, the United People's Freedom Alliance was defeated but Rajapaksa was elected as a Member of Parliament for the Kurunegala District. On 26 October , Rajapaksa was controversially appointed to the office of prime minister by president Maithripala Sirisena after the UPFA withdrew from the unity government.

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The incumbent, Ranil Wickremesinghe , refused to accept his dismissal, stating that it was unconstitutional. This disagreement resulted in a constitutional crisis. The Sri Lankan Parliament passed two no-confidence motions brought against Rajapaksa on 14 and 16 November Failing to follow proper procedures, president Sirisena rejected both.

On 3 December , a court suspended Rajapaksa's powers as prime minister, ruling that his cabinet could not function until establishing its legitimacy. Rajapaksa resigned from the post of prime minister on 15 December Wickremesinghe was re-appointed as prime minister, and Rajapaksa was appointed Leader of the Opposition. Rajapaksa became the leader of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna in , a proxy of the former president that had split from the Sri Lanka Freedom Party.

He became prime minister again on 21 November after being appointed by his brother, Gotabaya Rajapaksa , who had become president on 18 November after winning the presidential election. On 3 May , a motion of no confidence aimed at Rajapaksa and his cabinet was declared by opposition leaders.