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Insisting that a contest for the Presidentship would send the ``wrong signals'' to the people and to the entire world, she said that ``it would be good for the country if the President is elected without a contest''. ``I think it would be in the national interest if an unseemly contest was avoided.'' The Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, had spoken to her. ``We could not come to any agreement,'' she said, adding that she expected the issue to figure in her discussions with the Prime Minister during her visit to New Delhi next week. The AIADMK wanted someone who was acceptable to all to be elected without a contest. However, she added that the party was not against anyone running for a second term as President. ``Legally there is no bar against a President being given a second term. I do not think there is anything wrong in that.'' But she did not want to commit herself on the choice of the next President without knowing who the candidate would be. Asked if she would meet the Sri Lankan Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, during his visit to India, she said she would be in New Delhi at that time, and their programmes did not coincide.
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