Month: March 2023

All Opposition parties demand EC hold election by 19 March (The Morning 6-03-2023) NPP, SJB, SLFP, TNA unite in letter to Election Commission Say no need to consult Treasury Secretary after Supreme Court order All main Opposition parties – namely the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB), National People’s Power (NPP), Tamil National Alliance (TNA), Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC), All Ceylon Makkal Congress (ACMC), Tamil Progressive Alliance (TPA), and breakaway factions of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) – jointly wrote to the Election Commission (EC) yesterday (5), demanding that the…

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LG Polls funding: Treasury to abide by Court order ( The Morning 5- 03- 2023) Following the interim order issued by the Supreme Court on Friday (3) preventing the Secretary to the Ministry of Finance from withholding the funds allocated through the 2023 Budget for the Local Government (LG) Polls, State Minister of Finance Ranjith Siyambalapitiya said the ministry would respect and act according to the decision. “We should abide by the court decision. It is our responsibility. Therefore, as the Finance Ministry, we respect the decision and will act…

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UNP fast eroding its Liberal image for power (MSM Ayub Mirror on line 4-03-2023) If the relevant authorities are to go by what President Ranil Wickremesinghe told Parliament on February 23 about holding Local Government elections that had then been scheduled by the Elections Commission to be held on March 9, those elections have been laid to rest.    The main argument in his speech was that the Local Government elections have not been legally announced on the Ground that the decision by the Elections Commission to hold the elections…

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