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* New joint opposition alliance to launch in Sri Lanka next week
Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 07:59 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.

Oct 29, Colombo: The new joint opposition alliance led by the United National Party (UNP) is to be launched on 03rd of November.

Making a special announcement to media this evening the General Secretary of the UNP, MP Tissa Attanayake said the agreements will be signed at the parliament complex on the 03rd of November.

The four main political parties, United National Party, Sri Lanka Muslim Congress, Western People's Front, and the Peoples Faction of Sri Lanka Freedom Party will sign for the agreements first, he added.

According to MP Attanayake nearly 15 political parties and civil organizations have already agreed to sign this new joint opposition alliance.

The United National Party invites all the progressive factions to join hands with this new alliance which is being formed mainly to abolish the executive presidency.

UNP yesterday extended an open invitation to Marxist party, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna to join them, but the JVP has straightly rejected it.

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