Percy Wickremasekera is Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

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n lawyer, politician and trade unionist. He was the General Secretary

General Secretary

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 of the United Corporations and Mercantile Union

United Corporations and Mercantile Union

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 and a member of the Politburo of the LSSP

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Educated at the prestigious Royal College Colombo

Royal College Colombo

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 and at the Colombo Law College, he became a lawyer.

A Political Bureau member of the of the LSSP

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 he contest the 2004 general elections from the United People's Freedom Alliance

United People's Freedom Alliance

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in the Colombo District.