{"id":133176,"date":"2023-03-23T16:13:09","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T23:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=133176"},"modified":"2023-03-23T16:13:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T23:13:09","slug":"some-political-parties-propose-election-commission-to-further-postpone-lg-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/03\/23\/some-political-parties-propose-election-commission-to-further-postpone-lg-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Some political parties propose Election Commission to further postpone LG Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Some political parties today informed the Election Commission that conducting the Local Government polls on April 25, considering the present situation was not possible.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement, the Election Commission said following a discussion with the secretaries of the political parties, some of the parties proposed the LG Polls be held at a later date.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, during the discussions, some opposition political parties present said the Polls should not be postponed further in any way due to the Supreme Court ruling.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The parties proposed that if a new date is being considered, all parties, the Legislature and the Executive should be in agreement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Election Commission further said it had decided not to hold postal voting for the Local Government Elections scheduled for March 28, 29, 30, 31 &amp; April 03 and the new date for the elections will be decided later.&nbsp;<strong>(Darshana Sanjeewa Balasuriya)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Some political parties today informed the Election Commission that conducting the Local Government polls on April 25, considering the present situation was not possible.&nbsp; In a statement, the Election Commission said following a discussion with the secretaries of the political parties, some of the parties proposed the LG Polls be held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}