NPC: Polls Chief to get down foreign monitors

15 June 2013

Elections Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya today assured he would strive hard to obtain the services of foreign monitors for the Northern Provincial Council (NPC) Elections. He gave this assurance to representatives of several opposition political parties when they met him at the Elections Secretariat. United National Party (UNP) General Secretary Tissa Attanayake said the opposition parties were keen to obtain the services of monitors from the commonwealth union and elsewhere to control the use of state resources by the ruling United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA). He said the polls chief had assured the political party representatives that it was possible to get down foreign monitors and to issue various directives with regard to use of state resources but insisted that the action he could take was limited under the present electoral laws.(YP & LSP)

Twitter Q&A with Secretary to the President   June 15, 2013  Lalith Weeratunga, Secretary to the President, will answer questions on a Twitter Q&A on Wednesday, 19 June, from 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Sri Lanka time. The chat will take place via the official Twitter account of President Rajapaksa (@PresRajapaksa). Submit your questions with #AskLW. www.twitter.com/PresRajapaksa.