The Sinhala hard line National Freedom Front said it will take legal action against the UPFA's former general secretary, Susil Premajayantha, for preparing the coalition's nomination list. Another coalition member, the Front Line Socialist party also expressed it objections to the agreement to form a national unity government by the UPFA and the UNP-led UNFGG.
The NFF, which is led by Wimal Weerawansa, and won 5 parliamentary seats, also opposed the agreement signed by the two main parties.
Mr Weerawansa, who is a close ally of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa, received the highest number of any UPFA candidate in Colombo’s 16 polling divisions, with 313,801 preferential votes, second behind Ranil Wickremesinghe who won 500,566 preferential votes.
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