MR not named Prime Ministerial candidate: President

30 June 2015 01:55 pm

Sri Lanka Freedom Party Chairman and President Maithripala Sirisena has not decided to accept or nominate former president Mahinda Rajapaksa as the Prime Ministerial candidate at the next general election, President’s media unit said today.

Issuing a statement it said if the UPFA won the election, the Prime Minister would be appointed after consulting MPs elected to parliament.

The release said no candidate fielded by the Sri Lanka Freedom Party had been nominated as the prime ministerial candidate and that President Sirisena had not agreed about the prime ministerial candidacy.

The full statement