evidence: When the government’s election phobia became public, opposition leader Sajith Premadasa spearheaded the resistance both inside and outside parliament. As the government took various steps to delay the elections, the Samagi Jana Balawegaya and its legal team filed fundamental rights petitions against these measures in the Supreme Court. As a result, when petitions and rumours aimed at preventing the presidential election emerged, civil organizations, including SJB, successfully defeated them in court. [...] As we revealed, confirmed news was reported last week that the results of this opinion poll will be accepted internationally. This is due to the fact that the International Monetary Fund has invited Mr. Sajith Premadasa and Mr. Harasa de Silva, for a very confidential discussion. Normally, the IMF rarely invites representatives from a country’s opposition to this type of discussion. Especially when a presidential election season has been announced, such an invitation is hardly made. But this time, going beyond all those theories, it has been learned that the International Monetary Fund has invited the opposition leader and Harsha to the discussion, even though it is a presidential election season, to discuss how to deal with them in the future. Accordingly, it is also news that Sajaba has accepted this invitation.