elections
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Government collects information on UNP/JVP supporting state sector employees in run up to polls
The Ministry of Irrigation and Water Resource Management in a letter has requested information of United National Party...
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Why are the Uva PC polls so important?
The race for the Uva provincial council is heating up. The number of recorded violent incidents are growing,...
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Elections Commissioner clears Fonseka’s vote
The Elections Commissioner has spoken out on Sarath Fonseka’s controversial vote in the Provincial Council elections last weekend,...
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Provincial Council Chief Ministers and opposition leaders appointed
The Chief Ministers and opposition leaders for the Western and Southern Provincial Councils have been agreed by their...
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Democratic Party ready to support common opposition candidate for President
Sanath Fonseka’s Democratic Party, who performed impressively in last weekend’s Provincial Council elections, have said that they would...
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UNP & JVP claim PC polls signal end of Rajapaksa, neither really convince
Both the UNP and the JVP have said that the lower number of votes for the UPFA in...
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Hirunika tops preferential votes list in Colombo
Hirunika Premachandra received the most number of preferential votes in the Colombo District in this weekend’s Provincial Council...
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President hails election victory as rejection of UNHRC: But is it?
President Rajapaksa yesterday claimed that the UPFA’s victory in both the Southern and Western Provincial Council elections represented...
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Post-poll wrap – The Day After
The United People’s Freedom Alliance won the polls in both provinces. The United National Party came in second,...
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Six key questions about the Provincial poll
1. Who would lead the Western Provincial Council, and end up Chief Minister? Prasanna Ranathunga, who was previous...
