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Video: Mangala says no ‘Jilmart’ in 2010
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Former Minister and current UNP strongman Mangala Samaraweera in an interview with the Daily Mirror said today that there was no computer jilmart’ during the 2010 Presidential Election and President Mahinda Rajapaksa won the elections with no fiddling of numbers.“No I don’t think so. Frankly, if they could have won an election of that magnitude with computer jilmart they would have loved to have won the last municipal council elections in Jaffna. The entire cabinet was campaigning there, offering various things and flouting elections laws” he said.
Samaraweera ealier, was one of the main proponents of the idea that the presidential election was rigged through the manipulation of computer systems.
When further questioned as to the reason he made such a statement which in turn mislead the public Samaraweera said that he believed that the manipulation was done after the Presidents victory was assured.
"Well of course this will have to be proven when we are in power one day, sooner hopefully than later- that there was a manipulation of computers after it was obvious that he was winning- that was not won with the kind of majority that was seen.-Which is why I think the results were delayed by nearly one and a half days- we feel that it was after they were assured of victory that they fiddled with the numbers. But granted it was a victory" he said.
Speaking further he said that it was an ‘impressive’ mandate that the President received, but the current government had faltered on that mandate.
“Mahinda Rajapaksa got a window of opportunity that no other leader has got in this country since independence.
I mean, in 2010 with the majority he got immediately after the elections and the defeat of the LTTE -after 26 years- he could have taken this country on a totally new direction, but instead it is now considered a pariah state” he said.( Hafeel Farisz)
Video by Indika Sri Aravinda
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