evidence: Why find fault with Premadasa? Why not Wickremesinghe? Because after stabilising the economy that was in free fall, Ranil Wickremesinghe has a greater and justifiable claim to be the candidate for the presidency than Sajith Premasada. A little gratitude and commonsense could have averted the mutually assured destruction of Premasada and Wickremesinghe and could also have made Premadasa the prime minister. But he put his oversized ego before the country. [...] A common sense approach would be to build an alliance, defend the majority vote polled in the presidential election, and potentially form a government. But again, Premadasa has put his ego before the party and, perhaps, the country.