The United National Front expects to win at least 85 electorates at the April 8 Parliamentary Elections and is confident of forming a government under the leadership of Ranil Wickremesinghe with the support of other parties now in the Opposition, UNF Galle District Leader Vajira Abeywardene says.

Addressing a series of campaign meetings in the Galle District over the weekend, Abeuwardene said that he had first entered Parliament in 1994 and apart from two years in the government benches, he had been in the Opposition, but he would never leave the UNP for political and personal gain.

"The UPFA government has not done anything for the people, who have been hoodwinked. They were talking of getting a two thirds majority but that was only a wild dream. The people would teach the UPFA a lesson on April 8. The people would not be taken for a ride again. They felt the rising cost of living badly and anti-democratic acts, suppression of media freedom and political revenge under the present political dispensation, Abeywardene said.

The UNF government to be formed after April 8 would provide relief to the poor and the unemployed, restore democracy, free the country from nepotism, battle bribery and corruption and ensure media freedom.