The United National Party (UNP) said that they will challenge in court what it termed as the illegal dissolution of Parliament by president Maithripala Sirisena, a day after he announced a snap election in January.
"We will fight this emerging tyranny of Maithripala Sirisena in the courts, we will fight in parliament and we will fight at the polls", Mangala Samaraweerasaid at a press briefing held at the Temple Tress today (10).
The UNP will be pursuing the intervention of the courts to ensure the rule of law and the Constitution is protected against autocratic moves.
Samaraweera, who played an integral part in Sirisena's election campaign in 2015, said that the UNP had supported Sirisena to come to power hoping he would be a benevolent leader like Nelson Mandela of South Africa, but that he had shown himself to be a tyrant instead.
"Sirisena came to power promising to be a Mandela, but we ended up getting a Mugabe, a mad man," Samaraweera said, referring to Zimbabwe's strongman former president Robert Mugabe.
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