Secret poll to select UNP’s new leader [January 11 2011]

The UNP is to have a secret vote to select its leader if Ranil Wickramasinghe fails to agree on a new leadership, UNP sources said.

The party, which passed a new party Constitution at the recent National Convention, has decided to explain him on the need of a new leadership and if fails they would have a secret poll among the sitting Parliamentarians and Executive Committee members to select the new leader.

“ It is time for Sajith Premadasa to be the leader of the UNP”, UNP sources said.