Their expectation is for a coalition of parties to contest under a
common symbol.
That is due to a decision by a group of the SLFP to contest separately as the joint opposition.
Meanwhile, president Maithripala Sirisena has been told by some SLFPers in the government that more representatives of their party could get elected if they contested together with the JO, rather than with the UNP.
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