UNP Parliamentary Group has conveyed its refusal to work with SLFP Ministers who voted against Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe at the No confidence motion vote going forward. The issue was taken up at yesterday's meeting between the UNP working committee and the party’s MP’s in parliament.
However the group had expressed their willingness to continue to be art of the consensus government with others in the SLFP who abstained from the crucial legislative vote thereby indirectly supporting the PM.
The UNP MP group is said to have reached agreement on how to move forward as a coalition with the SLFP at the eight hour meeting held at Temple Trees yesterday. The party had also discussed other matters such as internal reforms and the restructuring of the party as promised by Wickramasinghe.
The decision of the UNP came as it was annouced that 16 SLFP Ministers had written to President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday requesting they be permitted to relinquish their ministerial portfolios and function as MPs of the opposition.
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