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Opposition Leaders decide to delay naming common candidate for Presidential election

2009-09-12 | 1.10 PM

The opposition leader who met under the leadership of Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe on Thursday (10) decided not to name the common candidate of the opposition at the next presidential election until the respective election was announced.

Rauf Hakeem’s SLMC, Mano Ganeshan’s DPF, Mangala Samaraweera’s SLFP (M) Wing and several UNP members attended this meeting.

An agreement was reached at the meeting on the amended policies and the programmes that would be adopted by the opposition alliance that is to be formed.

The alliance is to be officially formed after the UNP Working Committee approves the policies and programme at its next meeting.

It was also agreed to launch an island wide organizing campaign once the alliance was formed to prepare for any election that would be held in the near future regardless of it being a Presidential or a general election.

The official signing of the memorandum of understanding of the new opposition alliance is to be held at a grand event scheduled towards the end of the month and UNP General Secretary Tissa Attanayake and SLFP (M) Wing Leader Mangala Samaraweera have been put in charge of making the necessary arrangements for it.

Lanka News Web.com