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No room for outsiders: UNP

02 Jun 2019

By Skandha Gunasekara With speculation rife that a presidential election will be held in December this year, The Sunday Morning learnt that a United National Party (UNP) presidential candidate could only be an individual from within the party and that an outsider would not be given the UNP ticket to contest the presidential election. UNP Parliamentarian Heshan Withanage said that a request had been made of the UNP Working Committee that no outsider be allowed to contest under the UNP banner. “We have made an official request of the Working Committee that our party presidential candidate be a proper UNPer and not some outsider.” He said that despite rumours of outsiders contesting the presidential election on the UNP ticket, it would not be so. UNP MP Harshan Rajakaruna confirmed to The Sunday Morning that the party’s Working Committee had decided that it could only be a UNPer that was given the presidential candidacy. “From what I see, it would be either UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe, Deputy Leader Sajith Premadasa, or the Speaker of Parliament Karu Jayasuriya.” When The Sunday Morning inquired as to the rumours of local business magnate Dhammika Perera being thrown in the mix, MP Rajakaruna said that he would be better as part of the Government and that he would not be given the UNP presidential nomination. “I would like to see Dhammika Perera be a part of the Government in the capacity of a minister or maybe an advisor. But the UNP presidential candidacy would have to be given to someone from within the party,” he said. Meanwhile, UNP MP Mayantha Dissanayake said that the United National Front (UNF) fielding a candidate was an unlikely option. “While it is possible to field a candidate from another party of the UNF coalition, it is highly unlikely as the pure UNPers have demanded that it be a true UNP candidate,” MP Dissanayake said.

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