Sirikotha ready to make announcement on Thursday
Posted by ONLANKA Newsroom on September 24, 2019 - 7:22 am
UNP headquarters Sirikotha is being prepared for the working committee meeting on Thursday, September 26 to select its presidential candidate.
Party sources said Sirikotha would be prepared to hold a vote if the need arises.
It was also reported that the four-member committee is to reveal its recommendations on that day to the working committee as per the tradition.
(Source: Daily Mirror – By Yohan Perera)
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The R Family has blundered by nominating its candidate.
The UNP is likely to blunder even more by nominating SP.
The minority and undecided amongst the majority will vote for AKD.
The JVP will not support SLPP and the UNP in the elections.
This will be the beginning of the growth of the third force in SL politics.
The nation will face a new reality; the JVP may even command a majority in Parliament.
Blunder, the UNP, by nominating Mod* Premadasa and his Sundara Birinda, Jalani, as the First Lady, has dug its own grave to oblivion.
The defeat at Presidential Elections will be so severe that at the next Parliamentary Elections will return < 10 UNP members to Parliament.
Having been a UNPer since 1948, I am moving right away to Anura Kumara and I will stay with AKD for the rest of my life.