Mandate is not total votes of all rejected parties: Tilvin

Colombo, May 7 (Daily Mirror) - Claiming that the electoral system is faulty, JVP general secretary Tilvin Silva said today that the mandate is not the total votes of all the rejected parties but the majority votes secured by a single party.

He told a news conference that there is an issue in the electoral system where one who gets lesser number of votes can even get a seat due to the proportional representation system.

"One cannot put votes secured by all rejected political parties to one group and call it as the manadate. The manadate is the majority votes secured by a single party," he said.