Sri Lanka`s Prime Minister-to-be will meet President Chandrika Kumaratunga on Saturday to discuss formation of a government as curfew clamped in the wake of the bloody elections was eased.

United National Party leader Ranil Wickremesinghe was invited on Friday by Kumaratunga after his party finished with 109 seats in the 225-member parliament in the parliamentary election.
The People`s Alliance, which was in power for seven years, got only 77 seats and will sit in the opposition. The result has created a dispensation in which a constitutionally strong executive presidency and a legislature controlled by the incumbent`s main rival will have to share power.
Kumaratunga had earlier expressed fears that she might find it difficult to work with a UNP-majority legislature as she did not see eye to eye with its political and economic policies.
The President, whose tenure will go on till December 2005 and will continue to head the government and the cabinet, issued a special directive to the security forces on Friday to reiterate that she continued to be their commander and will brook no undermining of her authority.
Curfew imposed throughout the island was lifted at dawn but Army and police personnel continued to maintain vigil at provincial towns where PA workers were allegedly attacked.
Bureau Report