RW To Take Oaths As PM At 10.30 AM Tomorrow: His Fifth Appointment As PM In Four Decade Long Parliamentary Career

December 15, 2018

UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe will take oaths as the Prime Minister tomorrow at 10.30 AM, UNP General Secretary Akila Viraj Kariyawasam confirmed. 

The swearing-in ceremony will take place at the Presidential Secretariat, with the presence of UNP MPs and party seniors. 

This will be Wickremesinghe's fifth appointment as the Prime Minister in his four decade long political career .

Meanwhile, the new Cabinet will take oaths on Monsay before President Maithripala Sirisena. 

Several MPs of the SLFP are also expected to join the UNF government. UNP sources said they would only join as individuals and not as a group.