President Maithripala Sirisena will be the President of the country until 2025, SLFP National Organizer Duminda Dissanayake said. 

Addressing an SLFP meeting in Colombo yetserday, Dissanayake said Sirisena would be the Presidential candidate of the SLFP in 2020. 

"We can assure that he will be the President of the country even after 2020," he added. 

"These are not promises without susbtance. There is a mechanism to make him the President again. That is why we are in a position to make such assurances," Dissanayake said, adding that he could not reveal tha plan at this juncture. 

Addressing the same meeting, Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe said the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna would perish when former President Mahinda Rajapaksa decided to retire from politics. 

"He is a good leader and we have a lot of respect for him. But, he cannot become the President of the countr for the third time," Samarasinghe said. adding that Rajapaksa should retire from active politics.