COLOMBO (News 1st) - UPFA MP Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena noted that the United People's Freedom Alliance has decided to vote against the budget. Anyway, he noted that they would not allow the expenditure overhead of the President to get defeated.    ...

Colombo (News 1st): Convening a media briefing in Colombo today (Feb 26) MP Lakshman Yapa Abeywardene of the United People's Freedom Alliance noted that the government requires Rs. 7.8 billion as recurrent expenditure on a daily basis. However, he said the present government had only found Rs. 4 bil...

Colombo (News 1st): A group of MPs from the SLPP who were elected to the local government bodies convened a media conference at the party headquarters today (Feb 20). Speaking at the media conference Colombo Municipal Councilor Dayakantha Perera said that the people who were against the establish...

Colombo (News1st): The parliamentary group of the United People's Freedom Alliance unanimously decided today (Feb 5) to vote against the proposal on the formation of a National government by the United National Party. Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa chaired the parliamentary group meeting of the...

Colombo (News1st): Parliamentarian S.M. Chandrasena convening a media briefing at the Anuradhapura United People's Freedom Alliance party office today (Feb 2) stated that even if all Alliances will unite, the UNP cannot exceed 103 MPs in Parliament. He added that the 14 members of the Tamil Allia...