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JVP suffers its worst defeat

The JVP suffered its worst defeat in the Western Provincial Council election reducing their seats from 23 to three, National Freedom Front leader, Parliamentarian Wimal Weerawansa said.

If the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress had polled another 400 votes in the Kalutara District the JVP’s seats would be even less, JVP leadership does not have a clear vision and they do not have a clear national policy. Therefore, the JVP was now on a downward trend faster than the upward trend they achieved in the past, he said.

Both Leaders of the JVP and the UNP were in the same boat, both could not lead the party forward but only backward.

The UNP’s defeat was expected by everybody and there was nothing new in it. For the UNP about 20 to 25 percent votes in the Western Province was a bigger defeat but the three percent for the JVP was a greater defeat, Weerawansa said.

The UPFA had won a two thirds majority, securing 68 seats of 102 seats in the Western Provincial Council election while all the others have won only 34 seats, he noted.

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