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| Sunday, 30 May 2004 |
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PC polls on July 10 by Deepal Warnakulasuriya Elections for six provincial councils will be held on July 10 and all campaigns should wind-up before midnight July 07. Elections Commissioner Dayananda Dissanayake announced last Friday. Nominations for four provinces, Western, Sabaragamuwa, North Central and the Southern were closed on Friday and nominations for the Uva and Central provinces had been closed earlier. Fourteen political parties and four independent groups had submitted their nominations for the Western Province while eight political parties and three independent groups submitted nominations for the North Central, Sabaragamuwa and the Southern provinces contested by 16 and 11 political parties, five and three independent groups respectively. Assistant Elections Commissioner K. Senanayake said that 102 representatives will be elected for the Western Province while the Southern Province will have 53 councillors. Forty-two representatives will be elected for Sabaragamuwa province and 31 for the North Central province. The Assistant Elections Commissioner also added that only three nominations of Muslim Janatha Organisation for Colombo, Sihalaye Maha Sammatha Bhoomi Puthra Party list for Kalutara and an independent group list for the Rathnapura district were rejected. Sources from the Elections Commissioner's office said that no posters, banners or placards will be allowed in public places. They also said that Rs. nine million has been set aside to remove unauthorised publicity materials in public places and more than 1,000 persons will be deployed by the police under the directive of the Elections Commissioner for the purpose. |
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