He had just won a presidential election, bettering the UNP’s record breaking 1977 performance. JR Jayewardene won the 1982 presidential election with 53% and 3.4million votes.). The only way it can is if enough opposition parliamentarians defect to Mr Wickremesinghe. The presidential election will happen on time, on a Saturday between September 21st and October 12th. But there’s no conceivable scenario in which Mr. Wickremesinghe can be one of the two frontrunners – outside of a UNP-SJB reunification – another impossibility.
