Decision on UNP Candidate next week – PM
Posted by Editor on September 19, 2019 - 8:42 am
(REUTERS / Photo by Dinuka Liyanawatte)
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has announced that a decision on the Presidential Candidate of the United National Party will be taken next week.
General Secretary of the UNP Minister Akila Viraj Kariyawasam said the party leader informed of him of his decision yesterday.
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Sir the same way i appreciate your good service you have rendered to our mother country i know as a educated person or let me say the only educated of the 225 now in parliment please take a good decision, please appoint next educated person that is the honorable speaker as the candidate for the presidential place there by you could be prime minister and we Sri-Lankans will have a stable government for the next five years and a government who will not have to face problems by a uneducated president. so be quick and appoint honorable speaker Mr. Karu Jayasuriya
Dear Ranil,
It is crunch time for decision making.
We, the faithfuls, are confident that you will make the best decision not only for a UNP win but a win for all democratic forces, majority and minorities.
Please put your name forward as the Presidential Candidate; as an Exec President under 19A, your political philosophy and economic policies will drive a future UNP Govt towards a high income country.
The Exec President under 19A will not be a doer; he will be a thinker and strategist; that is what you are excellent at.
The work will be done by the UNP Cabinet and Parliament will enforce accountability.
At the next Parliamentary Elections, a younger and energetic member such as Navin Dissanayake or Ruwan Wijewardane or Patali Champika should be the PM.
Fiery,
I fully agree with your comments.
If democracy, rule of law, security and economic growth are the cornerstones, then:
RW to be Presidential Candidate.
Navin Dissanayake to be Prime Ministerial Candidate.
We have experienced enough poor decisions and waste of public funds to learn a very valuable lesson; a government lacking suitably qualified and educated individuals equates to nothing but regression!
WE NEED EDUCATED, PROGRESSIVE POLITICIANS WITH VISION!
-people without appropriate degrees should not apply!
waste of public funds is carried out deputy deputy leader Sagith Premadasa as he for propaganda to make him President uses public funds one sees sirasa tv every few minutes there sagith showing off using public Funds for propaganda for him to become President
The best candidate for the UNP is Ranil Wickremasighe.
It is only Ranil who can deliver democracy, rule of law, accountability and the long held dream of the country, abolishing the Executive Presidency.
When Ranil wins, Pohottu will openly support the abolishing of the Executive Presidency.
The JVP already supports that move.
Parliament will 100% vote for the move which is something that was not available since 2015.
In fact, the Executive Presidency could be abolished prior to the parliamentary Elections in 2020.