Ranil hit by lumps of confetti as he launches his presidential campaign

Ranil Wickremesinghe, the Leader of the Opposition, is heading for a torrid time with his campaign to win the next presidential election. Last week he opened his presidential campaign (no one is quite sure as to when it will be held) with his friends in the media casting doubts about his capacity to win the race. The business community too blasted him for not lending his support for the Joint Mechanism formula to deliver aid to the tsunami victims in the north and the east.