report in The Sunday Times, Aug 20, 2023Major political parties are re-positioning to gear themselves for parliamentary elections though when such an event would take place is uncertain. Prompting the exercise are developments in each other’s backyard. Days earlier, Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) leader Sajith Premadasa held an important round of talks with the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna’s (SLPP) breakaway faction led by Dullas Allahapperuma and G.L. Peiris among others. The SJB is on the…
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report in Daily FT, 2 May 2023President and UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday extended a direct invitation to the main Opposition Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) to join and form a government. “During the last election, some MPs from the SJB chose to abstain from voting. We all share the same goal of building an open economy. Therefore, let us unite and work together by forming a parliament and a government,” Wickremesinghe told the UNP’s May…
by Yohan Perera in Daily Mirror online, April 15, 2023Whilst stating that he together with MP Rauff Hakeem initiated an effort to bring UNP and SJB under one umbrella, MP Mano Ganesan said they had to abandon the idea since the SJB leadership did not respond. “It is true that Rauff Hakeem and I had initiated a path to bring UNP and SJB under one umbrella. Later we had to abandon the initiative as SJB…
by Ruwani Fonseka in The Morning, Mar 28, 2023I would like to state that the next Government will be led by the United National Party (UNP) under the leadership of President Ranil Wickremesinghe, said the assistant leader of the UNP, Akila Viraj Kariyawasam. He mentioned this at a UNP public gathering held in Kurunegala yesterday (27). “There are no queues for petrol and gas and no power interruptions, prices of good have been reduced recently…