The world’s first woman Prime Minister, she succeeded her husband, S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, after his assassination. Opposition to her policies and continuing ethnic conflict resulted in an overwhelming defeat in the 1977 elections. She was charged with misuse of power in 1980, stripped of her civil rights for six years, and expelled from Parliament. Her daughter, Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga (1945– ), became Prime Minister and then President in 1994, whereupon Bandaranaike resumed the post of Prime Minister. Kumaratunga served as President until 2005, being narrowly re-elected in 1999.