Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has said that they will form a new political alliance in the name of “National Democratic Front” and will register it to contest the next general election.

Wickremsinghe, who was reappointed prime minister on Sunday said this while addressing a victory rally of his United National Party in Colombo Monday evening. He said a massive alliance will be formed to establish democracy and they will safeguard the country with that.

Wickremesinghe said that his government will be asking all the political parties as to when they want the general election to be held.

The prime minister conceded that his government does have shortcomings, but vowed to address them and invited the people to speak about their deficiencies.

He requested the public to give them a two-thirds majority at the next general election to abolish the executive presidency once and for all. The PM said that he bows his head and salutes everyone who fought for democracy.

Wickremsinghe said that if anyone thought even for a moment that they have no power, at least now they must understand their power.

Thousands of people attended the rally which was planned before President Maithripala Sirisena decided to reinstate Mr. Wickremsinghe, ending a weeks long crisis.