The United National Party (UNP) yesterday called on the Speaker to reconsider his decision to allow Premalal Jayasekara, who was convicted of murder, to take oaths as a Member of Parliament. In a statement, UNP General Secretary Akila Viraj Kariyawasam stated that the verdict in the case Pre...
(Lanka-e-News -02.Jan.2025, 11.20 PM) The United National Party (UNP), a cornerstone of Sri Lankan political history, finds itself at a perilous juncture. Once revered for its liberal policies and pioneering introduction of an open economy, the UNP is now a shadow of its former self. W...
The UNP suffered its worst defeat in its history at the August 2020 parliamentary elections, failing to secure even a single seat barring the one national list seat alloted to Sri Lanka’s grand old party. Eight months later, a candidate has yet to be officially nominated for the seat. (C...
“I know that I can do it. But I’m not greedy for it,” he stressed. Ranatunga said he is not concerned about his wellbeing in the party and that it is important to unite party members and supporters. The UNP is on the lookout for a new leader after its current leader Ranil Wic...
given the progressive erosion of the UNP vote base since 1994, a candidate representing the Grand Old Party of Sri Lanka without the willful and proactive assistance of the other members of the grand coalition that got together in 2015, he or she representing the UNP alone would ha...
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Wijewardene, who is the Deputy General Secretary of the party, also pointed out that the first request for a MCC deal made by Mahinda Rajapaksa when he was president. Opposition to the MCC was a major plank of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna campaign which brought President Rajapaksa to po...
JVP MP Dr Nalinda Jayatissa, who is also a member of the party’s Central Committee said, in a brief interview with The Island, that there was no change in the party’s position that it would not side with either Mahinda Rajapaksa or any one from the UNP. ...
The leader of the United National Party and former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has said that the government is printing money in the manner of printing Sunday newspapers.
again. This gang is just trying to scare the SJB supporters. They also see it as a way to grab the votes of many SJB supporters. After the General Election, if anybody is going anywhere, that would be this small gang that would be removed from the party,” Maddumabandara pointed out....