Ex-President Maithripala reveals stance on presidential candidates
Former President Maithripala Sirisena states that he has not decided to support any of the candidates who are contesting the 2024 Presidential Election.
Former President Maithripala Sirisena states that he has not decided to support any of the candidates who are contesting the 2024 Presidential Election.
Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) Batticaloa District MP Ali Zahir Moulana has met with President Ranil Wickremesinghe and assured his support at the upcoming Presidential Election.
Presidential candidate of Sarvajana Balaya Dilith Jayaweera will hold his inaugural campaign rally in Jaffna tomorrow (17), said the alliance’s election operations chief Udaya Gammanpila.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe emphasized that the “Puluwan Sri Lanka” agreement, signed by 34 political parties and alliances, was not intended to create a new political party but to unite the nation and build a brighter future for the country and its people.
The Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) has neither an intention to ally with, or expectation of support from, former president Sajith Premadasa, says the party’s media spokesman S.M. Marikkar.
The SLFP faction led by former president Maithripala Sirisena has decided to join the SJB in support of its presidential candidate Sajith Premadasa.
Various reforms in the past two years have enabled Sri Lanka to come up in NGO benchmarks, said senior consultant at CAPS Kithmina Withanage.
The country needs politics of principles and not the opportunistic parties that keep their saloon doors open for anyone to enter, said NPP presidential candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake.
SJB presidential candidate Sajith Premadasa is the certain winner at the presidential polls by polling more than 50 per cent of the votes in the first round, said the party’s deputy national organizer S.M. Marikkar.