Sri Lanka's Election Commission postpones postal voting for local polls
Sri Lanka's election body on Thursday postponed the postal voting for the local body polls scheduled to take place next month due to a severe paucity of funds.
The local body polls, which were earlier scheduled on March 9, got postponed to April 25, due to a plethora of reasons linked to Sri Lanka's current economic crisis.
The Election Commission Director General Saman Sri Ratnayake on Wednesday met representatives of all the political parties seeking their opinion on whether postal voting should be postponed.
Ratnayake said all the parties have agreed that the dates for postal voting should be finalised only after the allocated funds are released by the Treasury.
Following the meeting with all the representatives of the political parties, the Election Commission has decided not to hold postal voting for the local body polls, which were scheduled to take place between March 28 to April 3.
Ratnayake added that a fresh date for the postal voting will be announced soon.
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