Sri Lankan Political Parties Not Giving Much Space For Female Candidates Through Their National Lists-PAFFREL

The Election Monitoring Group PAFFREL(Peoples Action For Free And Fair Elections) has said that Sri Lankan Political Parties are not paying much attention to giving more  space for  female candidates when they name  National List MP'S.

Only the governing United National Party(UNP) has named Anoma Gamage as one of their National List MP's yesterday (21)and she is the only female candidate elected through the National List for Parliament at the recently concluded Parliamentary Election.

At the previous election three female candidates entered the Parliament through the National List the Executive  Director Of PAFFREL Rohana Hettiarachchi has said.

At the Parliamentary Election held on last Monday only 11 Female Candidates have been able to getting elected to the Parliament out of  556 Female Candidates contested.

Sri Lankan Was Arrested At Katunayake Air Port When He Attempted Leave Singapore With Rs.Millions Worth Foreign Currency

A Resident of Weligama,Matara(In Southern Province) has been arrested by the Air Port Custom Officers at Katunayake Bandaranaike International Air Port this morning when he attempted to leave Singapore with foreign currency worth  Rs.2.4 million(15,000 US Dollars and 10,000 Saudi Riyals)

The 47 year old suspect was arrested when he was preparing to board a flight to Singapore Custom Officers said.

THOUGHT OF THE DAY

SELF PORTRAIT OF MEXICAN FEMALE ARTIST FRIDA KAHLO (1937) WHICH DEDICATED TO LEON TROTSKY

UPFA And JVP Have Named Eight Defeated Candidates For Their National Lists

While the governing United National Party leadership has decided not to facilitate the  party's parliamentary candidates who got defeated  at the recently concluded election to getting elected to parliament through the national list both the United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA) and the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna(JVP) Leaderships have paved the way for  eight of their defeated candidates  to getting  elected to Parliament through the national list.

All the three parties have announced their National List MP'S today and UPFA and JVP have included seven and one candidates respectively who  defeated at the election in their national lists.

Out of the 29 National List MP Posts 13 were allocated to UNP,12 for  UPFA and 02 each for JVP and TNA.

POEM OF THE DAY-"REUNION'S WAVES" FROM ALL POETRY COM SITE

When I meet you again for the first time

You will be taller, I will be thinner
You will be happier, I won't be quite there yet
When I see you again for the first time
Our eyes will not recognize each other, but our arms will
Our hearts will sing a song of nostalgia
A song of times long ago
There will never be a more beautiful sound
Relief will fill my body, spill out my eyes
Until we meet again

Government Planning To Propose UNP Senior Leader Karu Jayasuriya For The Parliamentary Speaker's Post

The newly elected government is  planning  to propose the senior leader of  Governing United National Party(UPFA) Karu Jayasuriya for the post of Parliamentary Speaker.The speaker is due to be selected when the new Parliament convened it's first session next month.

However it has been reported that no final decision regarding proposing  the Senior Leader of UNP Jayasuriya for speaker's post has taken yet .

Karu Jayasuriya has not contested the recently concluded Parliamentary Election and he was appointed to the Parliament today through the National List of UNP.