| United People's Freedom Alliance Eksath Janatha Nidahas Sandhanaya |
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|---|---|
| Sinhala name | එක්සත් ජනතා නිදහස් සන්ධානය |
| Tamil name | ஐக்கிய மக்கள் சுதந்திரக் கூட்டணி |
| Leader | Mahinda Rajapaksa |
| Secretary | Susil Premajayantha |
| Founded | 2004 |
| Headquarters | 301 T. B. Jaya Mawatha, Colombo 10 |
| Ideology | Social Democracy, Nationalism |
| Parliament of Sri Lanka |
160 / 225
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| Sri Lankan Provincial Councils |
269 / 417
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| Election symbol | |
| Betel Leaf |
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| Website | |
| sandanaya.lk | |
| Politics of Sri Lanka Political parties Elections |
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The United People's Freedom Alliance (Sinhala: එක්සත් ජනතා නිදහස් සන්ධානය) is a political alliance in Sri Lanka. The current leader of the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) is Mahinda Rajapaksa and Susil Premajayantha is the general secretary of UPFA.[1][2]
The alliance was formed by:
At a later stage ahead of the 2004 elections, the Communist Party of Sri Lanka and the Lanka Sama Samaja Party signed a memorandum of understanding with UPFA, so that CIC and LSSP candidates would take part in elections of the UNP symbol.
At the last legislative elections, 2 April 2004, the alliance won 45.6% of the popular vote and 105 out of 225 seats.[3]
In April 2005, a key coalition party, JVP, left the alliance, causing the government headed by President Chandrika Kumaratunga to become a minority government in the Sri Lankan parliament.
In the Sri Lankan presidential election, 2005, its candidate, Mahinda Rajapaksa, came first with 50.29% of the vote. Again in the Sri Lankan presidential election, 2010, Mahinda Rajapaksa won the election obtaining 57.88% of the vote for his second term of presidency.[4] However his main rival at the election, Sarath Fonseka denied the result accusing the government of carrying out an unacceptable media campaign against him using the state media and manipulating the result and vowed going to court. But the government denied such allegations and imprisoned him on charges of treason and sedition.[5]