Maithripala Yapa Sirisena (known as Maithripala Sirisena; Sinhala: Tamil: ; born 3 September 1951) is a Sri Lankan politician and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. He joined mainstream politics in 1989 and has held several ministries since 1994. He was the general-secretary of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and was Minister of Health until November 2014 when he announced his candidacy for the 2015 presidential election as the opposition coalition's "common candidate". He had also served as the Acting Defence Minister for several occasions.[1]

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