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Unfair to compare with previous results: UPFA

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The ruling UPFA today said it was not fair to compare Saturday’s Provincial Council (PC) polls’ results with the 2009 results, to indicate that the UPFA had suffered a setback this time, UPFA’s election campaign manager Minister Dullas Alahapperuma said.

He added that the 2009 PC polls in the two provinces were held under the euphoria of the war victory and the opposition was then in tatters and extremely weak.

The Minister said the government was fully satisfied with the results of Saturday’s PC polls in the Western and Southern Provinces.

Opponents of the government were comparing Saturday’s PC polls results with that of 2009 and attempting to prove that this time’s election results were a setback to the government.

“This was a great victory for the government, as the voters have given a clear signal to those who campaigned virulently within the country and abroad to defeat the government at the elections. The voters have not heeded to the request of anti-government elements in the West and their local agents and have voted for the UPFA decisively,” Minister Alahapperuma said.

He further said the elections were held in the heat of the passing of the US-sponsored resolution in Geneva and the US-led campaign by the western countries as an initiative for a regime change. This had not happened and the voters had used their franchise wisely.

The opposition in 2009 was so weak that they were not in a position to present a manifesto in 2009 and it was a clean sweep for the government, he added.

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