Sampanthan’s dilemma Is Sampanthan playing into the hands of JO

JO aims at Opposition Leader post, the General Secretary posts of United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP)

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NCM against Sampanthan put on hold at the instance of the former President

JO argued that they be given the Opposition Leader post claiming that they were the largest group in the Opposition

Local Government election results point to the fact that the UNP’s calculations have gone wrong

2018-04-27

The Joint Opposition, the Mahinda Rajapaksa loyalists in the Parliament, seems to aim currently at three main positions in and outside of the Parliament.
One is the Opposition Leader post, a position that they have been eying from the day this Parliament met for the first time after the last General Elections and the others being the General Secretary posts of two parties led by President Maithripala Sirisena - the United people’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) and its main constituent party, the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP).

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