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Local council polls: New date to be announced on Friday
The Election Commission will postpone the local government elections by three weeks, to sometime possibly even beyond April while commencing fresh negotiations with the Treasury on securing funds, Chairman of the Commission Nimal Punchihewa told the Sunday Times.
The Commission will meet on next Friday to announce the new date for the election , he said.
Mr Punchihewa said that keeping with legal requirements though it would be a postponement of at least three weeks, but the date may be even beyond April.
He said that the Treasury would need to give an assurance about the funding to decide on the date for the election.
“Even if we give an date, we would have to decide if we could hold elections on the given date depending on the issue of providing funds”, he said. He said even during the COVID19 situation the elections was postponed on two occasions following consultations with Health authorities. “We may have to resort to a similar situation until we get an assurance about the funding”, he added.
Meanwhile, a senior officer of the Election Commission said that so far more than Rs 500 million has been spent for election purposes.
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