Sri Lanka’s Tamil parties announce common candidate for presidential poll
August 8, 2024 01:14 pm
The ‘Tamil National Common Structure’, an alliance of Tamil political parties, has announced its decision to nominate former MP P. Ariyanenthiran as their common candidate for the upcoming Presidential Election.
Several Tamil political parties and a group of civil society representatives had reached an agreement to nominate a common candidate for the forthcoming Presidential Election.
Accordingly, seven Tamil political parties including the Tamil People’s Alliance and seven civil society representatives had signed this agreement in Jaffna on July 22.
The signatories include C. V. Vigneswaran of Tamil People’s Alliance, Selvam Adaikkalanathan of Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization (TELO), D. Siddharthan of People’s Liberation Organisation Tamil Eelam (PLOTE), Srikantha of Tamil National Party and Suresh Premachandran of Eelam People’s Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF).
