Sri Lanka’s Tamil parties to nominate common candidate

Several Tamil political parties and civil society representatives have agreed to nominate a common candidate for the forthcoming Presidential Election.

This morning in Jaffna, seven Tamil political parties, including the Tamil People’s Alliance, and seven civil society representatives signed the agreement.

The signatories include C. V. Vigneswaran of the Tamil People’s Alliance, Selvam Adaikkalanathan of the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization (TELO), D. Siddharthan of the People’s Liberation Organisation Tamil Eelam (PLOTE), Srikantha of the Tamil National Party, and Suresh Premachandran of the Eelam People’s Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF).