Despite the granting of approval for Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa to lead the alliance. select the General Secretary of the alliance and make the nomination list for the upcoming elections, the final approval of the Working Committee will be needed.
A party official said that the new General Secretary will also have to be a UNP member.
The appointment of electoral and district organisers also would have to be finalized in consultation with party leader Ranil Wickremesinghe.
The move came as the Premadasa faction said they planning to appoint Senior UNP MP Ranjith Madduma Bandara as the General Secretary, but sections of the UNP were opposing his names.
The Committee on High Posts has approved the nomination of Former Air Force Commander Air Chief Marshal (Retd.)
Former Chairman of SriLankan Airlines, Nishantha Wickramasinghe, arrested on allegation of corruption by the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) has been remanded until July 1 by the Colombo Magistrate court.
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