UNP leader calls for future polls without preferential voting system  

UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe says he hopes that yesterday’s General Election would be the last under the Proportional Representation (PR) system.

Addressing journalists after casting his vote at the Colombo University polling station, he said “When we were in power we proposed a mixed system without preferential votes. In the coming years, I hope we could bring about a change in the electoral system.”

Wickremesinghe said that the Election Commission had done a commendable job of holding polls in the middle of a pandemic.