36 PC's to vote to retain Reginald Cooray as Chief Minister

The Western Province Provincial Council in a media announcement yesterday (25) gave the list of names of the following PA Provincial Councillors as having expressed their total confidence in the WP Chief Minister Reginald Cooray. The announcement ran thus: We, the undersigned People's Alliance group of members of the Western Provincial Council certify that we have full confidence in Reginald Cooray who functions as the Chief Minister of the Western Provincial Council:

1. Upali Kodikara, 2. Thilakaratne Rajapakse, 3. Sumith Viyajamuni Soysa, 4. Keerthi Udawatta, 5. I.A.Isura Devapriya Dharmasena Perera, 6. Asoka Lankathilaka, 7. Reginald Cooray, 8. Ranjith Somawansa, 9. Nimal Chandraratne, 10. Jagath Angage, 11. Chandrasiri Karunaratne, 12. A.Chandrabhanu, 13. M. Sumith Lal Mendis, 14. Prasanna Ranatunga, 15. Naufer Fowzie, 16. Sunil Jayamini, 17. G. M. Buddhadasa, 18. Hector Bethmage, 19. A. D. Gamini Thilakasiri, 20. R. W. Waragoda, 21, S. C. Premasiri Jayawardena, 22. A.P.Dulip Wijesekera, 23. Chandana Jayakodi, 24. R. C. Dilip Kumara Rajapakse, 25. Gunasiri Jayanath, 26. Lalith Wanigaratne, 27. K.Meril Perera, 28. Sarath Kumara Gunaratne, 29. Saddhatissa Sakalasooriya, 30. Nimal Lansa, 31. A. I. Susil Wijeratne, 32. Ananda Ranjit Rupasinghe, 33. Nandana Mendis, 34. Sisira Jayakodi (MEP), 35. Renuka Perera (S.L.M.C.), 36. Mahesh Almeida (CP).