{"id":143496,"date":"2024-08-15T02:40:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T09:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=143496"},"modified":"2024-08-15T02:40:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T09:40:01","slug":"ec-accepts-nominations-of-all-39-presidential-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/08\/15\/ec-accepts-nominations-of-all-39-presidential-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"EC accepts nominations of all 39 presidential candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Courtesy Ada Derana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

The Election Commission of Sri Lanka says it has accepted the nominations of all 39 presidential candidates who submitted their nominations today (15) for the 2024 Presidential Election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Election Commission Chairman R.M.A.L. Rathnayake announced that the three objections presented following the nomination submission, were rejected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Addressing the candidates, signatories and others present at the Election Secretariat, he said that 39 candidates had submitted nominations during the allocated period from 9.00 a.m. to 11.00 a.m. today. This includes 22 candidates from recognized political parties, 1 from other parties and 16 independent candidates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added that three objections had been submitted during the period allocated for the presenting of objections which ended at 11.30 a.m. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He stated that the members of the Election Commission decided to reject all three objections which had been submitted concerning the candidates Janaka Priyantha Kumara Ratnayake, Ven. Battaramulle Seelarathana Thero and Oshala Lakmal Anil Herath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Accordingly, the nominations of all 39 presidential candidates who submitted nominations have been accepted, the Election Commission Chairman declared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The allocation of symbols to independent candidates is expected to follow shortly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Following is the full list of the nominations accepted;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Dilith Jayaweera<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Sarath Manamendra<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Abubakar Mohamed Infaz<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. A.S.P. Liyanage<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. Pani Wijesiriwardena<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

6. Priyantha Pushpakumara Wickremesinghe<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

7. Ajantha de Soyza<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

8. Ven. Battaramulle Seelarathana Thero<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

9. Sarath Fonseka<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

10. Nuwan Sanjeewa Bopage<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

11. Oshala Herath<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

12. Janaka Ratnayake<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

13. K.K. Piyadasa<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

14. Mailawanagam Thilakaraja<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

15. Siripala Amarasinghe<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

16. Pakkiya Selvam Ariyanethiran<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

17. Sarath Keerthirathne<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

18. K. Ananda Kularatne<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

19. Namal Rajapakshe<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

20. Akmeemana Dayarathana Thero<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

21. K.R. Kishan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

22. Chaminda Anuruddha<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

23. Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

24. Anura Sidney Jayarathne<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

25. Sirithunga Jayasuriya<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

26. Mahinda Dewage<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

27. Mohamed Ilyaz<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

28. Lakshman Namal Rajapakse<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

29. Antony Victor Perera<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

30. Keerthi Wickremeratne<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

31. Sajith Premadasa<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

32. Ranil Wickremesinghe<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

33. Marakkalamanage Premasiri<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

34. Lalith de Silva<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

35. P.W.S.K. Bandaranaike<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

36. D.M. Bandaranaike<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

37. Anura Kumara Dissanayake<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

38. Agampodi Prasanga Suranjeewa Anoj de Silva<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

39. Roshan Ranasinghe<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Courtesy Ada Derana The Election Commission of Sri Lanka says it has accepted the nominations of all 39 presidential candidates who submitted their nominations today (15) for the 2024 Presidential Election. The Election Commission Chairman R.M.A.L. Rathnayake announced that the three objections presented following the nomination submission, were rejected. Addressing the candidates, signatories and others […]<\/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-143496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143496","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=143496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}