SLPP to look at the the 'Chair' for general elections

The “chair” symbol belongs the People’s Alliance (PA), under which former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunge contested the 1994 presidential election.

Spokesperson for SLPP presidential candidate, MP Dullas Alahapperuma said the SLPP could not agree to contest the presidential election under the chair symbol as proposed by the SLFP.

“The SLFP proposed the chair as a common symbol for us to contest as an alliance. But we could not accept it for this presidential election,” he said, adding that the SLPP was open to contesting under a common symbol with the SLFP at future elections following the presidential election.

He added that the SLPP had accepted a memorandum of understanding (MoU) presented by the SLFP containing 20 separate points while SLPP presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa had also accepted the MoU presented to him by the SLFP.