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The JVP has assured the UNP that it will support a
common candidate fielded by a joint opposition alliance-led by the main
opposition party if President Mahinda Rajapaksa called an early
presidential election ahead of parliamentary polls.Well informed political sources told the Sunday Island
that this would be a new alliance and should not be mistaken with the
recently formed UNP-led United National Alliance (UNA) which would
campaign for parliamentary polls scheduled to take place by April next
year.
CEB engineers ‘not happy’
with proposed 25% pay hike
A 25% salary increase to all categories of Ceylon
Electricity Board (CEB) employees will be granted from January next
year, Chairman E. A. S. K. Edirisinghe said yesterday.
Presidential election in
mid-January?
The presidential election will precede a parliamentary
election and is likely to be held around the middle of January next
year, authoritative sources said yesterday.
