Sri Lanka, May 22 -- The United National Party (UNP) has decided to consider only the percentage of votes received by each candidate when naming UNP representatives to local government bodies.

Accordingly, only those candidates who receive the highest percentage of votes will be qualified to be appointed to the local government bodies, representing the UNP.

Leader of the UNP Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe has also instructed the committee responsible for selecting UNP representatives to local government bodies not to revise the decision under any circumstances.

The UNP secured a total of 381 seats in LG bodies across the island, having polled 488,406 votes in total during the recently held Local Government Elections.

Meanwhile,...