The Sri Lankan Freedom Party agreed on Thursday to form a national unity government with the United National Party, which received the greatest number of seats in parliament on Monday's general election, though fell short of obtaining a simple majority.
The decision follows a meeting this morning between the SLFP leader and Sri Lankan president, Maithripala Sirisena, and the SLFP Central Committee.
The Committee has appointed a 6 member sub committee, which will be lead by the former president Chandrika Kumaratunga and includes Mahinda Samarasinghe, Nimal Siripala de Silva, S B Dissanayake, Dr Sarath Amunugama, and Susil Premajayantha, to negotiate the unity government with the UNP and produce a Memorandum of Understanding
The UNP has 106 seats, whilst the SLFP which led the UPFA coalition has 96 seats, and the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has 16.
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