Leader of the United National Party (UNP) Ranil Wickremesinghe has urged that Sajith Premadasa, the Leader of the Opposition, be appointed as the Prime Minister of the proposed new National Government, in what he claimed as the impossibility to move forward as a National Government without the faction of the official Leader of the Opposition of Sri Lanka, internal sources divulged leading the dialogue on the formation of a National Government onto a whole new level.
Being the official Opposition Leader of Sri Lanka, Premadasa would be an appropriate person for this post, Wickremesinghe suggested.
Premadasa being appointed as the Prime Minister of a National Government, which by definition is an entity in which as many parties as possible work together on a collective consciousness, would be effective in the event that he has the largest number of seats in Parliament as the Opposition, the UNP Leader pointed out, according to sources.
It was initially reported that Wickremesinghe was proposed to be appointed as the Prime Minister of a possible National Government, but we on many occasions pointed out that the UNP Leader had not made any special effort on owning the post expect eyeing on the matter.