REFUGEE

Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe has decided to accept the post of Prime Minister in the care taker government that would be appointed by General Sarath Fonseka if elected to office, a senior UNP parliamentarian told Lanka News Web.

All parties supporting the General have agreed that soon after assuming office General Fonseka should appoint a care taker government with members of all parties represented in parliament until fresh parliamentary elections are held.

The next general election is scheduled to be held before April 22, 2010. Therefore, the care taker

government would be functional only for a few weeks.

In this backdrop, Wickremesinghe has decided to accept the post of Prime Minister after receiving a mandate and this decision is to be announced at the party’s convention on the 5th.

Meanwhile, SLFP (M) Wing Leader Mangala Samaraweera told the Executive Committee of the UNF that contrary to stories that were doing the rounds, he had no intention of being appointed as the Prime Minister of the care taker government and that it is Wickremesinghe who should be appointed to such a post.