16.9.2008
Sunil C. Perera in Colombo

UNP will take the initiative to build an alliance of political parties and mass organizations to demand the government to implement the 17th amendment to the Constitution .

General Secretary of the UNP Tissa Aattanayake said that the UNP Leader Ranil Wickremasinghe has been authorized by the party to hold discussions with political parties and other mass organizations regarding the formation of the alliance.

UNP General Secretary further added that commissions including the police, government services, election, and judicial commissions have been made inactive and democracy has been weakened and threatened due to the failure to establish the Constitutional Council proposed in the 17th amendment. The party plans to form a broad alliance to demand to establish the 17th Amendment in the parliament and outside the parliament and the proposed alliance would be established very soon said Mr. Attanayake .