{"id":132257,"date":"2014-10-29T12:27:44","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T06:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=132257"},"modified":"2014-11-08T13:23:10","modified_gmt":"2014-11-08T07:53:10","slug":"leftist-parties-divided-over-which-candidate-to-support-at-upcoming-presidential-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/leftist-parties-divided-over-which-candidate-to-support-at-upcoming-presidential-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftist Parties Divided Over Which Candidate To Support At Upcoming Presidential Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leftist parties in Sri Lanka have divided over which candidate to support at the upcoming Presidential elections, with the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP) passing a motion to support <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Mahinda+Rajapaksa&amp;x=9&amp;y=2\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mahinda Rajapaksa<\/span><\/a> while the Nava Sama Samaja Party (NSSP) has announced that a decision has not yet been made on which candidate they would support.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ranil-Mahinda-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-131632\" alt=\"Ranil Mahinda-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ranil-Mahinda-2-300x244.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ranil-Mahinda-2-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ranil-Mahinda-2.jpg 649w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The motion to support Mahinda Rajapaksa at the upcoming Presidential election had been proposed abruptly\u00a0without any notice of a resolution\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">during a meeting held to consider some documents submitted to the Central Committee. Although senior members such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Lal+Wijenayake&amp;x=5&amp;y=4\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Lal Wijenayake<\/span><\/a>, Dr <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Jayampathy+Wickramaratne&amp;x=12&amp;y=6\">Jayampathy Wickramaratne<\/a><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"> PC, Prof. \u00a0Vijaya Kumar, S Ramanathan, Wimal Rodrigo, Keerthi Kariyawasam\u00a0 and Chameera Perera protested against the motion, it had been passed with 25 members voting in favour of it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">The protesting members have however informed that the decision is rejected by them and that they will defy it and act independently to support a candidate who will stand for abolition of the executive presidential system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile in a media statement, a group of the Nava Sama Samaja Party (NSSP)\u00a0politbureau\u00a0members have announced that they have not made a decision to support UNP Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Ranil+Wickremasinghe&amp;x=11&amp;y=2\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ranil Wickremesinghe<\/span><\/a> or any other common candidate who will be fielded at the upcoming presidential elections.<\/p>\n<p>They have noted that despite NSSP General Secretary Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Vickramabahu+Karunaratne&amp;x=9&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Vickramabahu Karunaratne<\/span><\/a> announcing that they would critically support Ranil Wickremesinghe, no such decision has been made and that it is only his personal view. 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