Ranil can remain UNP Leader till 2025 – Lawyer
Ranil Wickremesinghe cannot be ousted from the leadership of the UNP until 2025 according to the Party Constitution, says UNP Legal Secretary, President’s Counsel Nissanka Nanayakkara.
At the 2019 UNP Convention, Wickremesinghe’s name was seconded for the next six years, and accordingly, Wickremesinghe will remain the Party Leader until 2025, Nanayakkara said.
There are only two methods to remove Wickremesinghe from the UNP leadership, Nanayakkara said, adding that however, those two methods would not be feasible within the current political context.
Wickremesinghe voluntarily stepping down from the leadership is one of these methods, while the other method is to convene a Special Convention with a focus on reforming the Party leadership, Nanayakkara explained.
He further said that a majority of Party members are of the opinion that if the UNP is to resolve its internal crisis and to move forward, Wickremesinghe should continue to be the Party leader.
UNP leader Wickremesinghe, recently, instructed the Party’s lawyers to prepare a report on changes that need to be made in the Party.
(Source: Ceylon Today – By W.K. Prasad Manju)
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Rajapaksha’s must be celebrating!
I strongly support that view and wish Ranil (the last standing patriot in our Nation) the best in his tenure to 2025.
“last standing patriot” – Really?
So, this is the one who was so gullible in his “peace” accord with LTTE in 2002 that he allowed 18+ lethal weapons shiploads to unload in LTTE held waters – all the while the pro-LTTE SLMM Norwegians and the LTTE were laughing off their butts off! Yes, this folly’s cost proved colossal later, in terms of very heavy casualties on SL armed forces, when LTTE resumed war again!
As long as he want be the prime minister or the opposition leader this senile old basted can remain as leader of any dead party as long as he wish.
Yes, good news. He will remain so and try to become the PM again till he finds a sucker such as MY3. Let me put it this way Ranil will stay as the UNP leader until his last breath. I am sure DS, Sir John, Dudley, JR, RP crying in their respective graves.
Indeed, wonderful news as he and his anti-SL, non-patriotic, ‘grand ole cronies’ can stay in the dead party. Time the younger UNP roosters broke off and formed their own party in the interest of Sri Lanka.
Ferry.
If sucking up to the white man and bringing the country down is patriotic then there are many like him around.
Can’t imagine there are still people in SL who want that old Fart Ranil around.
ranil is one of the honest staesment in he world and he wins his seat with one of the highest majorities in Sri
Lanka . He Leads from the Front