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Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said yesterday that he would not leave room for the establishment of a UPFA government. He said the 100 Day Period mandated by the people had ended at the moment.

Addressing a get together of the United National Party (UNP) at Temple Trees, the Prime Minister said a new stable Parliament is needed to get people’s friendly legislation passed smoothly without any hiccups.

He said the government can no longer go about withdrawing clauses of legislation just to get them passed as it did with the 19th Amendment in the recent past.

He also said Sri Lanka should show the world a stable legislature in order to attract foreign investors. He stressed the need for creating a bright future for the youth and thereby creating new avenues for employment.

UNP General Secretary Kabir Hashim said the present regime is an interim one which was elected for only one hundred days and it is essential to elect a new stable government.

Making a presentation, Mr. Hashim said UNP will be able to get more than 119 seats at the general elections. He recalled that 6.2 million votes which were obtained by President Maithripala Sirisena at the last presidential election would have given an opposition alliance 119 seats at a general election. He claimed that UNP could get this amount of seats at the next general elections.

Deputy Minister of policy planning Dr. Harsha de Silva said people will be able to see clearly that the economy handed over by the previous regime manipulated a bankrupt one.

Uva province Chief Minister Harin Fernando said the only promise which this government failed to keep was to dissolve Parliament on April 23. He said he is willing to dedicate himself for the party as he did in the Uva Provincial Council elections in the recent past. (Yohan Perera)

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