The Sri Lankan opposition, fuelling the Presidential ambitions of the former Army Chief General Sarath Fonseka against the incumbent Mahinda Rajapaksa, suffered a setback on Monday afternoon as one of the senior members from its side broke ranks and announced not only all help to Mr. Rajapaksa but also joined the ruling Sri Lanka Freedom [...]
As Sri Lanka awaits a formal announcement on dates for a Presidential and Parliamentary election, separately or together, the leader of the newly-floated 18-party United National Front (UNF), Ranil Wickremesinghe on Thursday advocated switch over from the present Presidential to a model akin to the Indian system. A booklet in Sinhala titled “Anagatha Abiyogaya” outlining [...]
The leader of the newly-floated 18-party United National Front (UNF), Ranil Wickremesinghe, has said that the nomination of the just retired General Sarath Fonseka as a consensus Presidential candidate of the alliance to take on the Sri Lankan President, Mahinda Rajapaksa, is conditional. The retired General, who led the war against the LTTE and sought [...]
The newly-floated United National Front (UNF), led by the former Sri Lanka Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, challenged Mahinda Rajapaksa on Wednesday to go ahead with his planned early presidential poll if he was confident of his popularity. Hours ahead of a Cabinet meeting Presided by Mr. Rajapaksa which agreed on the dates for the presidential [...]
Sri Lanka’s main opposition on Tuesday formed an alliance with minority Tamil and Muslim parties and a breakaway faction of the ruling coalition to contest possible snap elections. Opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe said his United National Party had set up the United National Front (UNF) to press for the scrapping of the executive presidential system [...]
The Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) Ajith Nivard Cabraal strongly denies the allegation that the CBSL was about to sell its gold reserves to pay off the country’s short term debts. The allegation was made by the Opposition and United National Party (UNP) leader Ranil Wickremesinghe addressing a public gathering in [...]
The Govt. in order to settle foreign loans , is seeking to sell illicitly 38 metric tons of gold with the Central Bank . Opposition and UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe made this revelation at a meeting in the Dambadeniya electorate on 13th. The Govt. which had obtained a foreign loan of Rs. 130 billion and [...]
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