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JVP’s common candidate proposal may go ahead
Karu says won’t contest next Presidential election |
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2009-09-01 | 3.00 PM |
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JVP sources say the UNP leadership has agreed to the proposal presented by the JVP to put forward a common opposition candidate at the next Presidential election with stern conditions on abolishing the Executive Presidency.
Sources further said that two UNP parliamentarians have already had unofficial discussions with two JVP parliamentarians on the instructions received by the UNP Leader. The JVP has also proposed names of three candidates to the UNP at these discussions.
In this backdrop, UNP Deputy Leader Karu Jayasuriya and National Organizer S.B. Dissanayake, who were hoping to contest as the party’s next presidential |
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candidate, have agreed to step down.
UNP Deputy Leader Karu Jayasuriya has said that he had no intention of contesting the next Presidential election and denied new reports carried in several newspaper that he would be contesting as the party’s candidate in an interview with the Lakbima newspaper today.
Meanwhile, National Organizer, S.B. Dissanayake has also told Lakbima in an interview yesterday (31) that stories about him contesting the next Presidential election were mere rumors. He had further said that he would contest such an election only if the party requested him to do so and that he had no intention of forcibly taking such posts.
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