EC meets today to decide on new date for LG polls
Members of the Election Commission (EC) are scheduled to meet today to decide on a new date for the local government elections.Chairman Nimal G. Punchihewa said the EC would take a final decision on holding elections today.
The EC met last week and decided that it would announce a new date for the local council elections, today.The LG elections were earlier scheduled to be held on 09 March, but the government’s failure to release the necessary funding caused it to be put off indefinitely.