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D. S. Senanayake, the founder of the party. The UNP was founded by Don Stephen Senanayake in 1946 by amalgamating three right-leaning, pro-dominion parties from the majority Sinhalese community and minority Tamil and Muslim communities. [6] Senanayake had earlier resigned from the Ceylon National Congress due to its revised aim in achieving ...
2001–2019: Leader of the United National Front for Good Governance [ a] Ranil Wickremesinghe[ b] (born 24 March 1949) is a Sri Lankan politician who is the 9th and current President of Sri Lanka. [ 1][ 2] He also holds several ministerial positions, including the Minister of Finance, Minister of Defence, Minister of Technology and Minister of ...
The leader of the United National Party is the highest position in the party. The leader is appointed by the majority vote of the working committee of the party who meets at Sirikotha, when the position is vacant. The party had seven leaders since 1947. President Ranil Wickremesinghe has been the leader of the UNP since 1994.
The general secretary of the United National Party is one of the highest positions in the 77-year old Sri Lankan party. The General Secretary holds the powers of calling working committee meetings of the party and singing nominations for the elections. Palitha Range Bandara is the current General Secretary of the UNP.
The Liberal Democrats were the third largest party until the 2015 general election when they were overtaken by the Scottish National Party in terms of seats and UK political party membership, and by the UK Independence Party (UKIP) in terms of votes. House of Commons chamber. House of Lords chamber. The UK's first-past-the-post electoral system ...
League of Nations. The United Nations ( UN) is a diplomatic and political [2] international organization with the intended purpose of maintaining international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a center for coordinating the actions of member nations. [3]
This is a list of United National Party MPs. It includes all parliamentarians that were elected to the Parliament of Sri Lanka representing the United National Party from 1946 to present day. The names in bold are the members of the party that became the President / Prime Minister of Sri Lanka .
The National Party was an early-20th-century national political organization in the United States founded by pro-war defectors from the Socialist Party of America (SPA) in 1917. These adherents of the SPA Right first formed a non-partisan national society to propagandize the socialist idea called the Social Democratic League of America.