The SLFP will support former president Mahinda Rajapaksa at the forthcoming parliamentary elections, according to the party's spokesperson Dilan Perera.
Mr Perera, who is also an MP for the UPFA coalition, said the party felt Mr Rajapaksa was popular and should be promoted so the election can be won.
“Today there is huge support for Mahinda Rajapaksa so we must market him at the polls,” he said.
The MP said that the United National Party under Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is having "cold feet" after it heard that the former president will contest the polls.
“Ranil Wickremesinghe is not somone who can be placed in the market and that is why at the last two Presidential elections he did not contest,” Mr Perera said.
Mahinda will ‘definitely contest’ elections – spokesperson (02 June 2015)
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