PM instructs to withdraw no-confidence against SLFP ministers
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has informed the UNP MPs to withdraw the no-confidence motion against the SLFP Ministers who voted in favour of the NCM against him, Department of Information Director General Sudharshana Gunawardana said today.
Wickremesinghe has stated that the No-confidence motions handed over by the backbencher UNP MPs was not a decision of the UNP but the views of a few MPs.
The Government Info. Department said that further decisions on the matter will be taken at a UNP group meeting, soon.
He has asserted that the issues which have arisen with the SLFP would be resolved through negotiations, the Director General of the Department of Information Sudharshana Gunawardana said in a statement.

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The UNP should discard the President if it wants to win the Parliamentary elections in 2020 for the President’s addiction to solar power has been the biggest fraud in our country’s history and his dislike of coal fueled electricity has cause a lost of billion rupees. a day
Well this is a wise move to save is skin. Because, it would lead to the SLFP uniting with the Joint Opposition to collect 113 MPs to form a Government most probably under former President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
What a circus!
Cannot understand why the UNP is not forming their own government. The President is a disaster!
The country is a disaster politically, financially and in every way possible thanks to the present and past government, poor mother Lanka 70 years of rape by politicians