Presidential Election: Tamil parties to nominate common candidate

Several Tamil political parties and a group of civil society representatives have 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 have signed this agreement in Jaffna this morning (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).