The Sri Lanka Freedom Podujana Alliance formed between the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) to contest for the upcoming general election in hopes of garnering the majority votes, seems to be cracking under the pressure as the race for preferential votes are creating a division among the alliance candidates.
The SLFP yesterday (14) called a special press briefing presided by the party’s lawyers, where they extensively discussed the potential threats casted towards the alliance by external forces.
It explained that it was the political differences of certain members that prompted the SLFP to field their candidates under the SLFP banner in the Jaffna, Kalutara, and Nuwara Eliya Districts. However, in the rest of the electoral districts, the SLFP candidates will be contesting under the SLPP banner, honoring the terms of the alliance.
“Lately, our candidates are being targeted by the members of the SLPP on their political stages where they are urging the public to not vote for candidates contesting from the SLFP under the SLPP banner. In the most recent incident, Prasanna Ranatunga, the candidate from the Gampaha District, publicly said that people should not vote in candidates from (the) SLFP and not cast their vote for Maithripala Sirisena, the former President who is contesting from the Polonnaruwa District,” SLFP Acting Chairman Prof. Rohana Lakshman Piyadasa noted.
SLFP General Secretary Dayasiri Jayasekara on Monday (13) had written to the Election Commission (EC) indicating that the incident was against the code of conduct for contesting political parties, independent groups, and candidates of the election that was stipulated and published by the EC as per the Gazette Extraordinary No. 2178/25 on 3 June 2020.
Under Clause G: Other Important Matters of the Gazette, point number 10 states: “Refrain from making use of the print or electronic media during the period of the election to make false and unsubstantiated allegations about rival parties and their activities and denying the aggrieved parties of the right to reply.”
“We believe that Prasanna Rantunga’s statement has deeply affected the alliance that the SLFP and SLPP have at the moment and has relegated the image of the SLFP candidates contesting under the SLPP banner. We have requested the EC Commissioner (Chairman) to look into this matter and advise TV stations to halt the broadcasting of such statements that are made not only by SLPP candidates, but also other party candidates,” the letter further indicated.
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