{"id":71264,"date":"2017-11-02T08:15:49","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T15:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=71264"},"modified":"2017-11-02T08:15:49","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T15:15:49","slug":"legal-validity-of-gazette-notification-calling-for-local-government-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/11\/02\/legal-validity-of-gazette-notification-calling-for-local-government-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"LEGAL VALIDITY OF GAZETTE NOTIFICATION CALLING FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>There are news reports that the Gazette Notification regarding the arrangements for conducting the long awaited Local Government Elections is to be published very soon.\u00a0\u00a0 This is welcoming news, even though the number of members of the local governments have increased by an astronomical 3870 members.\u00a0\u00a0 This will allow the manipulative politics to rule the local governments as well.<\/p>\n<p>However, the passage of the new Bill by Parliament\u00a0 2\/3 rd majority has been challenged in the Supreme Court.\u00a0 If the Court gives its seal of approval for the controversial Bill, then\u00a0 the \u00a0elections will most likely take place.\u00a0\u00a0 But if the Bill is declared null and void by the Supreme Court, the gazette notification\u00a0 calling for the elections may also be unenforceable.<\/p>\n<p>In that event, the Local Governments status could remain as dissolved with the alternative pathway to hold elections under the previously existed boundaries and conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Will the Commissioner of Elections delay the issuance of the Gazette Notification until such time the Supreme Court decision is handed down? Or can a private citizen petition to the Supreme Court seeking a restraining order for the enforcement Gazette Notification and conducting elections pending SC determinations.\u00a0 If \u00a0the Election Commission delay issuance, the Government will pass the blame on the EC for the time being.<\/p>\n<p>But if EC act, as it is reported to issue the Gazette, will the Election Commissioner\u2019s decision become sub-judice\u201d ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE There are news reports that the Gazette Notification regarding the arrangements for conducting the long awaited Local Government Elections is to be published very soon.\u00a0\u00a0 This is welcoming news, even though the number of members of the local governments have increased by an astronomical 3870 members.\u00a0\u00a0 This will allow the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-m-d-p-dissanayake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71264","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=71264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}