SLFP decides not to accept Cabinet posts

13 May, 2022

By Easwaran Rutnam

The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) has decided not to accept Cabinet portfolios in the new Government.

SLFP Leader Maithripala Sirisena said that the SLFP will not join the Cabinet of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.

He said the decision was reached when the SLFP held extensive discussions today.

“We will not be part of the Government,” he said.

The former President said that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had invited the SLFP to join the Cabinet

Sirisena said that the SLFP had requested President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to appoint an all-party Government.

He said that the President had discussed the proposal with the SLFP.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe assumed duties today at the Prime Minister?s Office.

Wickremesinghe was appointed as the new Prime Minister yesterday.

He was sworn in before President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the President?s House in Colombo last evening. (Colombo Gazette)

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