hindu.com, Tue Mar 14 21:48:50 EST 2006
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse is likely to win the support of key minority parties representing Muslims and Plantation Tamils in his peace efforts.
The emerging re-alignments come ahead of the March 30 local body polls. “The President has already initiated discussions with the Ceylon Workers’ Congress (CWC) and the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC), but nothing has been decided,” a senior aide to Mr. Rajapakse told µ. The two parties have backed Mr. Rajapakse’s peace efforts, but “there is no decision on that the two parties will join the Government.”
The significance of the support is more in the context of the broad-basing of the support for Mr. Rajapakse rather than the Parliamentary stability of the ruling United Peoples’ Freedom Alliance (UPFA), which already has a majority in the 225-member House.
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