The United National Party yesterday decided to make a final decision on the party's Presidential candidate after forming a grand alliance on August 05.

UNP Parliamentary group last evening decided that there is no point in talking about candidate when the election is yet to be declared.

However, some MPs including Ajith P Perera, Kabir Hashim and Ranjith Madduma Bandara expresses the view that UNP Deputy Leader Sajith Premadasa should be fielded as the party's Presidential candidate.

Meanwhile, a sizable proportion of members opined that the party should make a final decision on the matter once the alliance is formed.

However, the party postponed making a final decision on the matter. "Ajith P. Perera has written on his Facebook page that the group unanimously decided to field Premadasa as the Presidential candidate. That is an outright lie. There is no decision as such and the matter is still being discussed in the decision-making circles of the party, " a senior UNP Parliamentarian told Asian Mirror.