UNP candidate will win presidential election – Akila | Daily News

UNP candidate will win presidential election – Akila

The victory of the UNP candidate at the next presidential election is a certainty, UNP General Secretary Minister Akila Viraj Kariyawasam said.

He said that there is much talk and hype about the next presidential election today. “It is the Rajapaksa family, which would finally select the SLPP candidate for the next presidential election. The SLPP had no other alternative than a member of Rajapaksa family company to field as its candidate for the election, he told a press conference held recently.

He said the responsibility of selecting the next UNP presidential candidate was vested in the party working committee. “The Working Committee would select its presidential candidate with consensus after detailed deliberations. The UNP did not have any leadership problem,” he said.

Minister Kariyawasam said that a certain media institution had misquoted a statement he made to imply that there were two UNP presidential contenders. He said he had never made such a statement. He said that when that media institution asked for his views as the UNP General Secretary regarding the next presidential election, he replied that although the opposition had two presidential candidates, the UNP was certain of emerging victorious at the next presidential election.


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