An Appeal from NSSP, THE PRESIDENTIAL election in Sri 1999. After severe defeats on the war. Kumaratunge is making an all-out effort to boost her election campaign.
ine assident group in tre opposito United National Party(UNP) has already joined the People's Alliance(PA) governswo ministerial posts.
IC CCHO OCIS BITIDC UNdUr NSSP. JVP. Muslim United Liberation Front MULr), New Lert FrontINLr have already agreed to nominate a common left candidate omrde Ne ie oe JVP has been unanimousty accepted as the lett candidate. The Democratic Workers' Congress(DWC) has agreed to ioin our campaen whith will boost uc our campaign among the Kandian Tamils. The four signatory parties have agreed on a common programme;
To defeat Chandrika and Ranil, the the IMF, and the capitalists of the imperi. alist countries.
2. Firmiy to consolicate democratc rights in Sri Lankan society. As a powerul step towards that, to abolish thi execubve Presidency and immeotately transfer such powers to the Parlament.
3. Jo appea for a mandate to establish a left regime which will release the Sri Lankan Sociery from the trap of destructive war, to which it nas been drapacd. eradicate causes that led to the emerquestion; construct a permanent, honorble peace, and eradicate discrimination wie esaorsning autonomnous regions for the minority nationalities within a socialist rule where democracy is fully established.
We decided to put forward a common left candidate primarily on the above basis. Considered in that sense, this is an understanding among four main left parties to correctly represent several funda. mental objectives. also can contribute to the objective of victory of the left. Election Appeal.
in the provincial council elections, the VP obtained around 500.000 votes and the NSSP standing only in 5 districts gained closer to 100,000 votes. So we are starting the Presidential elections with around 600,000 votes..
p r sono cheque payau KK Kanhelage, c/o Socialist Outloo PO Box |i09. London N4 200 power in 1997 this IMF agenda, to implement a cut in tac aruby oudgets.
After he had been in power • montas there was & Dig bo n erough army to sce natt the hey used the Chiet Justice of the Supreme Court in Pakistan to agree some verdicts Initially perhaps they did they just wanted to scare him but the fight went too far and Sharrif or the army.
And then because of interrise in popularity was very short lived because the ecoTV8S pletely unrelenting. Then towards the end of last year which was aimed at normalising relations with India Nawaz important factor because it led to the Kargil crisis because the army is completely opposed to normalisation of relations with to any supposed " solution" on the question of Kashmir Kny LOOk Pakistan action to over Kashmir that we saw This sun tac But all of this was strongly intluenced by the cconomic situation - the army neded prove its usefulness by still in dispute, by showing their could be no normalisa tion with India because they don't want to loose their jobs because of the IMF and the World Bank.
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