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Leadership Council will be given more powers: Ranil
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United National Party (UNP) National Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe said today he would handover more powers to the newly-appointed leadership council in the future.He gave this assurance when he met some members of the National Youth Front at the party headquarters Sirikotha and said he had already divested himself of 19 powers and passed them over to the leadership council and would hand over more powers to it soon.
“The party will soon be managed by the leadership council,” he said.
Mr. Wickremesinghe said he would handle parliamentary matters and would have the power to liaise with other political parties and with the Government.
“We needed to focus on building up ties with other parties while consolidating our party,” he said.
Mr. Wickremesinghe urged party members to support the leadership council which was headed by UNP front-liner Karu Jayasuriya. He said Mr. Jayasuriya was appointed with the consensus of the entire UNP working committee.
Mr. Wickremesinghe also stressed the need to reorgainse the party stating because a snap election is round the corner. (Yohan Perera and Lahiru Pothmulla)
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