Ministers of the United People’s Freedom Alliance have elaborated that the Government has received a clear victory at the Western and Southern Provincial polls. They totally rejected the analysis of Opposition parties.
The Ministers were addressing a media briefing of the United People’s Freedom Alliance held at the Sri Lanka Freedom Party Headquarters today.
Minister Maithripala Sirisena said that the Government is upbeat about the conduct of a peaceful and democratic poll for the two Provinces. They witnessed how the media as well as the Opposition made references to a decrease in the number of votes, the number of seats or a setback by the Government group since the announcement of the results. It should be clearly mentioned that the Government had secured a clear majority within the Western and Southern Provinces as in the previous polls. The Minister said that they totally reject the analysis made by the Opposition Parties, while the election results were being announced.
Minister Susil Premajayantha said that the 2009 Provincial Council polls were held on April 19th. The polls were held when the troops had reached the Nanthikadal Lagoon during the humanitarian operations. Polls for the Southern Province were held in June that is a month after liberating the country from terrorism. It was under these circumstances, that the Government was able to secure a two thirds majority in these polls. Five years had passed since then. In 2005 when the polls were held, the aspiration was how the war was to be ended. The war ended in 2010. Rather than political facts these had become history. It is under a totally different background that the 2009 and 2014 polls had to be compared. The Minister said it should be mentioned that in comparison to the general election, the Government has succeeded in maintaining higher vote percentage.
Minister Dulles Alahapperuma said that they vehemently reject that the Government had suffered a setback at the polls. Elections were held in 57 electorates and the Government secured wins in 51 of them. The number of votes secured in the Districts by parties other than the main opposition was one million. When taking into consideration the joint opposition, the Government has secured 525,000 votes in excess. Referring to the 2010 General Election, the Minister said that the Alliance polled 313,000 votes in the Kalutara District. But in this poll it polled 337,000 votes. This figure is more that the votes polled by the Freedom Alliance in the General Election. In Hambantota, the Alliance polled 174,000 votes during the General Election. These votes are maintained at this poll. The Alliance received 213 thousand votes in the General Election in the Matara District while at this poll it received 231,000 votes. The Minister emphasized that the Alliance had polled a high number of votes in the Districts, when compared to the votes received when President Rajapaksa was elected at the Presidential poll in 2005.
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