Hon. Mangala Samaraweera MP, former minster and current co spokesperson for presidential candidate General Sarath Fonseka, would be a busy man these days, finalizing the minimum common program (MCP) that the disparate parties that support the General’s candidacy, ranging from the main opposition UNP to the JVP and the SLMC, can agree on, as the platform on which the General will campaign and seek election to this nation’s highest office. The date of release of the common program was stated as 7^th January. In the meantime we have General Fonseka’s own pronouncements on matters as his policy platform to date. The following are a few issues which one hopes that the common program and its attendant explanations will address.

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