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Sri Lanka President finalizes two ministerial portfolios for the dissident Marxist party
Mon, Jun 29, 2009, 05:51 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
June 29, Colombo: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa has finalized two ministerial portfolios that were promised to the National Freedom Front, led by the breakaway Marxist Wimal Weerawansa.
According to the National Freedom Front they are likely to get the Tourism and Cultural ministries.
General Secretary of the NFF parliamentarian Nandana Gunathilaka is to get the cabinet ministerial portfolio for Tourism while parliamentarian Piyasiri Wijenayaka is to get the non cabinet Ministerial portfolio for Cultural Affairs.
The representatives of the NFF are to meet President this evening to discuss the capacity of these two ministerial portfolios.