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Former UPFA MPs Duminda Dissanayake and Dr. Vishwa Warnapala today obtained an enjoining order preventing SLFP General Secretary Anura Priyadarshana Yapa and UPFA General Secretary Susil Premajayantha from functioning as the general secretaries of the SLFP and the UPFA and that Mr.Dissanayake and Dr. Warnapala be empowered to function as the general secretaries of the SLFP and the UPFA respectively.
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National Freedom Front (NFF) leader Wimal weerawansa said if the premiership could have been given to Ranil Wickremesinghe without any mandate, President Maithripala Sirisena would certainly have to give it to former president Mahinda Rajapaksa who would win the election with a majority seats and have majority support in parliament.
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In a response to President Maithripala Sirisena’s letter, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa said today that he hopes President Sirisena would respect the verdict of the people at the parliamentary elections in the same manner he respected the verdict on January 09 and left the Temple Trees by early morning.
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UPFA general secretary Susil Premajayantha said yesterday that he and other senior party members had signed an agreement that, if the UPFA won the elections of August 17th, they would support the appointment of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa as prime minister.
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In a hard-hitting letter to former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, President Maithripala Sirisena as the Chairman of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) today asked Mr. Rajapaksa not to raise communalism and said that he will not be appointed Prime Minister if the party gets more than 113 parliamentary seats as there are more senior SLFPer who could be appointed as the Premier.
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A United National Front for Good Governance (UNFGG) government would devolve power up to the village level according to a ‘Grama Rajya’ system but will not adopt federalism, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said today.
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The ruling party and the Opposition have both used State resources and State powers to get an advantageous situation during the forthcoming elections, a leading election monitoring body, People’s Action for Free and Fair Elections (PAFFREL) said today.
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Ven. Maduluwawe Sobitha Thera, the Head of the National Movement for Social Justice (NMSJ) today reiterated that they would not remain silent once the election was over, and would continue to force the government until it implements its political reforms and national policies.
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The Paddy Marketing Board was looking at the possibility of using stores at the Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (MRIA) to store the paddy harvest of the Hambantota District in the Maha season, a top official told the Daily Mirror today.
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A UPFA government formed after August 17 would replace the entire top management of State bodies with highly qualified new officials and immediately open inquiries on 70,000 files claimed to have received by the government, since January on corruptions and misdeeds at State commercial ventures, the UPFA said today.