UNP Leader should contest the Presidential Election: SF

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) – Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka said that the UNP Leader should contest the upcoming presidential election and if that happens they would work towards his victory.

“ My opinion is that the UNP Leader should contest the Presidential elections. If he remains as the UNP leader he should definitely contest the election.  If he contests we will work towards his victory,”  Field Marshal Fonseka said.

When asked about speculation that Speaker Karu Jayasuriya or Minister Sajith Premadasa would be the Presidential candidate he said: “What I say is that the party leader should contest. If there is a leader in the party it is he who should contest at the elections.”  

Commenting on speculation about a National Government he said: “We can have National Governments but we are not ready to have national governments with the people we had one with earlier. There are proposals like that for various people to get nominations. But we are not ready to fall into a well during the daytime, into which we fell in the night as well.”