The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) has admitted it made a “mistake” by picking Gotabaya Rajapaksa as President in 2019.
Minister and SLPP MP Pavithra Wanniarachchi said that the SLPP made a mistake by picking Gotabaya Rajapaksa as its Presidential candidate.
However, she says that mistake was rectified by appointing Ranil Wickremesinghe as President.
She says appointing Ranil Wickremesinghe as President was not a mistake.
Wanniarachchi, who was the Minister of Health and later Minister of Transport under Gotabaya Rajapaksa, said that the SLPP had always taken the correct decision but made a mistake in 2019.
She said that after Wickremesinghe assumed office the gas and fuel issue was resolved.
Wanniarachchi also said that at the next election the SLPP will contest and will be victorious.