the SLFP convention november (15) , despite the President and his Govt. making a big din earlier that an announcement will be made at the convention ,whether the Govt. will hold the Presidential or the Gen. elections, deliberately avoided making the announcement. This is because it is scared about elections . The Govt. is a bundle of confusion particularly after hearing that Gen. Fonseka is a likely common candidate of the Opposition for the next Presidential elections, he added.
Instead of talking about holding elections and when , the President asked those present whether they want Presidential or General elections first ? . The entire crowd shouted in unison they wanted the Presidential elections first. In other words , his own SLFP ers are eager to send him home ahead of two years , Karunatileke noted . The President’s term ends in 2011, but his supporters want him to quit two years earlier , perhaps they are themselves disgusted of his reign , he pinpointed.
Wont all the people , let alone SLFP supporters, get disgusted of this Govt. which had only subsisted so long on feeding the people with false promises and lies, he asserted. At Presidential elections it promised the sun and the moon . When there was a public outcry against Govt.’s false promises , it blamed on the war and wanted the suffering and struggling masses to wait for the war to be over . Now, over six months have elapsed since the war was over , but the Govt. having no solutions now, is stifling the public and workers’ protests by inflicting violence on those participating in Trade union actions . Already , trade union action has been resorted to by workers of four main State Institutions , the CPC , the CEB, the Ports Authority and the Water Board . The govt. instead of meeting the Unionists and resolving the issues , it is using its thugs and violence to intimidate them into submission . In the end it is the public who are inconvenienced , he observed.
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