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UNP National List seat remains vacant Ven. Rathana Thera
The drawn-out dispute over who would occupy the single National List won by Our People’s Party (OPP) or the Ape Jana Bala Pakshaya ended yesterday with Ven. Athuraliye Rathana Thera named to the seat. Commissioner General of Elections Saman Sri Ratnayake issued the Gazette notification naming Ven. Rathana Thera as the OPP MP close to four months after the conclusion of last August’s Parliamentary Election. The seat was hotly disputed with the Leader of the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) Ven. Galabodatte Gnanasara Thera and the General Secretary of the APP Ven. Wedinigama Wimalatissa Thera also staking a claim to the seat. The single National List seat won by the United National Seat in the last General Election still remains vacant. ....
The panic on the COVID-19 threat has totally eclipsed many issues that would have otherwise become hot issues. Main among them is Tamil nationalistic politics. Some others are the plight of the United National Party (UNP) and the bickering within the Ape Jana Bala Pakshaya or the Our Peoples Power Party (OPPP) led by Ven. Athureliye Rathana thera and Ven. Galagodaaththe Gnanasara Thera. The UNP which was the ruling party when Sri Lanka gained Independence and the OPPP, an unknown party until the previous parliamentary election had lost in all districts at that election yet managed to secure one national list seat each. But both the parties, one which was generally known as the Grand Old Party in Sri Lanka and the other which claimed to be the savior of the Sinhala Buddhist community in this country have pathetically failed to come out with a clear solution to the internal row over the appointment of a member to the solitary parliamentary seats they won. ....