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President Mahinda Rajapaksa will announce a presidential election tomorrow (Monday), very well informed sources disclosed yesterday on condition of anonymity. But it was not clear whether it would be a mere announcement of an election or a formal declaration which would start the process of fixing a date for the election in terms of the Constitution and the Presidential Elections Act.Such an announcement will end the suspense of what will come first – a presidential or parliamentary election with both possibilities having been earnestly considered by the president and his...
UNF’s aim to end "Rajapaksa
family rule" and restore democracy - Ranil
The primary objective of forming the United National
Front (UNF) is to end the "Rajapaksa family rule" and restore democracy
through the election of a people-friendly government, Opposition and UNP
leader Ranil Wickremesinghe said.
President increases IDP
resettlement allowance to Rs. 50,000
The President has decided to double the resettlement
allowance paid to IDPs with effect from December 15, 2009, senior
presidential advisor, Basil Rajapaksa, MP, said in Chettikulam, Vavuniya
yesterday.
