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Gammanpila says UPFA has lost the election

United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) Colombo District candidate Udaya Gammanpilla says the UPFA has lost the 2015 Parliamentary election. While the official results of most districts are yet to be released,?Gammanpilla said in his official Facebook account that the?UPFA is expected to end with victory in only 9 electoral districts against the UNP’s 11 and TNA’s 3. “Although no party has secured the majority in the parliament the UNP will form a minority government. I have secured approximat

18 Aug, 2015

MR will support good policies of new Government

Former president Mahinda Rajapaksa said on Tuesday he was unlikely to lead Sri Lanka?s next government as initial results from the general election gave a slight edge to the coalition government. ?I will support good policies and oppose bad things,? the two-term president, who crushed a 26-year Tamil insurgency in 2009, told Reuters?by telephone from his southern home of Hambantota. The 69-year-old nationalist ruled out joining a unity government that President Maithripala Sirisena, the figure

18 Aug, 2015

First result goes in favour of the UPFA

The first result in the 2015 Parliamentary election went in favour of the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA). The UPFA got the most number of votes in the Ratnapura District in the postal votes with 11367 while the United National Party (UNP) secured 9673 votes and the JVP 1808 votes. The postal votes are of Government servants, including the police and military, who marked their votes a few days before election day. The Department of Elections said that the final results are expected by

17 Aug, 2015