LG polls to be held as scheduled: EC Chief

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Colombo, April 4 (Daily Mirror) - The National Election Commission confirmed that the 2025 Local Government Elections will be held as planned on May 6, despite ongoing legal proceedings surrounding the rejection of nomination papers.

Speaking at a media conference in Colombo today, Commission Chairman R.M.A.L. Rathnayake assured the public that election preparations are moving forward, while also emphasising the Commission’s commitment to respecting court decisions.

“We will proceed in line with the rulings issued by the courts,” Rathnayake said, referring to a number of petitions filed by political parties and independent groups over the rejection of their nominations.

Rathnayake also noted that the printing of polling cards and ballot papers has already begun for areas unaffected by legal disputes.

Earlier in the day, the Court of Appeal ordered election officials to accept nearly 37 nomination papers that had previously been rejected. The decision was issued by a two-judge bench comprising Acting Court of Appeal President Justice Mohammed Thahir Laffar and Justice K.P. Fernando.

The ruling came after court reviewed the writ applications filed by various parties, including the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA), the ‘Sarvajana Balaya’ alliance, and several independent groups. The rejected nominations had pertained to several local government bodies, including the Colombo Municipal Council.

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D P P Prasad Friday, 04 April 2025 08:54 PM

The local government election will be held as scheduled. But the ruling party (NPP) cannot reach a better result what they expect. They can’t hoodwink the people continuously. Certain pledges being given the ruling party has yet to accomplish. However eventually they will secure the power of majority of the council. As we believe the popularity of the NPP has some extent diminished

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Sri Wickrema Saturday, 05 April 2025 08:50 AM

The NPP Govt has nearly four and a half years left to fulfill their election pledges. It is too early to forecast local govt election results.

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R. K. D. C. Bernard Saturday, 05 April 2025 07:06 AM

The local govt. election is a better satage for chasing away of the govt. as think of the opposition parties and do everythings regarding on this. But those wishes erode due to the current situations of law and order implement against those former politicians as some are remanded, some of them are imposed rigorous imprisonments and also escape with hide outing as ßfrom the custody apart from that ongoing serious inquiries, handing over of serious criminal charges against them etc. All those will be influenced to the victory of opposition that ability of rock the society is high from that type of accusations and allegations. These situation is unprecedented for politicians that's why those regime shielded them little by little in order each other. But this rule gives them a nice roll unecpectedly.

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Jude Saturday, 05 April 2025 09:30 AM

Hello, we don't want this stupid LG polls and PC polls. Waste of few billions of public money.

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