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SLFP to demand that SLPP honours agreement between the two parties
The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) says it will demand that the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) immediately honours the commitments it made in the agreement signed between the two parties before the 2019 presidential election.
The SLFP’s Central Committee (CC) is to meet on Tuesday followed by a meeting of the Executive Committee. Authoritative SLFP sources stated that the party CC will discuss commitments that the SLPP has so far failed to honour in the agreement signed between the two parties.
The sources pointed out that the SLPP did not honour earlier commitments to allocate two national list MP seats to the SLFP. The SLFP also did not receive the promised four Cabinet ministerial portfolios, three State / Deputy ministerial portfolios and the two provincial governor posts agreed upon earlier. The party is also displeased that the Government has not appointed individuals from the SLFP as ambassadors nor provided any support to local SLFP politicians to carry out development activities at grassroots level.
“Our party members point out that all this was agreed upon more than a year ago. They have a right to expect them,” said a senior SLFP source, speaking on grounds of anonymity.
The source added that the SLFP’s CC will discuss these matters and then inform the SLPP officially to honour its commitments.
The SLFP is also concerned that the Sri Lanka Nidahas Podujana Sandanaya (SLNPS), formed before the last parliamentary election, had not convened after the polls. The party noted that the failure to convene meetings of the alliance has made it difficult for coalition partners of the Government to discuss issues that have arisen between other parties in the Government and the SLPP. “There are many differences that we need to iron out and the sooner the SLNPS is reactivated the better it will be for all of us,” the SLFP source stressed.