23 March 2023 01:36 pm
The Parliamentary, Presidential and Local Government Elections should be held together on the same day, former Minister Navin Dissanayake said today.
He said that all three elections should be held together to save money.
During his remarks, he emphasized that local government reforms would be enacted soon.
"The country cannot afford to look after 8,000 Local Government members at the moment and these reforms will be introduced soon," he said.
"The policy of President Ranil Wickremesinghe is to take on political and economic reforms together," he added.
Also he charged that some members of SJB tried to sabotage IMF assistance.
“They wanted to use the Local Government Election results for this and show the world that the present Government did not have a mandate," he said. (Yohan Perera)