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Pressure from government seniors to re-appoint Ratnasiri as Prime Minister
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Colombo News Desk CND on 05 March, 2010 12:05:00
 
Minister Fowzie believes that the only way to resolve the cold war between party
seniors like Maithripala Sirisena, Nimal Siripala de Silva and Basil Rajapaksa
over who becomes the next Prime Minister is to re-appoint Ratnasiri to the post.
His stance is that the appointment of an individual who has not even held a
ministerial post by sidelining party seniors could cause a rift in the SLFP.
It is learnt that other senior SLFPers like John Seneviratne, Piyasena Gamage,
Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena, Berty Premalal Dissanayake and Maheepala Herath are
also supportive of Fowzie’s stance.