Presidential election date before Saturday

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Colombo, July 23 (Daily Mirror) - The National Election Commission is slated to announce date for the 2024 Presidential Election before Saturday (27).

The sources said the date is likely to be announced on Friday (26).

Sources also indicated that the election date has already been finalized. The meeting scheduled for Thursday (25) is a routine meeting of the commission and not intended to discuss the election date.

Further, the Gazette notification for announcing the Presidential Poll will be published before the weekend.

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Sokrates Wednesday, 24 July 2024 08:56 AM

Last week it was said that due to some Poya days and weekend the date of election would be announced on Tuesday. Now it will be Friday, if at all. Ranil in his greed of power is playing with the people.

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A Supporter of Election Commission Wednesday, 24 July 2024 09:00 AM

The Chairman of the Election Commission should know that he has already set a World Record for the highest number of announcements before actually announcing the Presidential Election. He should have told the public that the only reason he delayed the final announcement was to achieve the World Record and not because of 'Raahu Kalaya' and 'Auspicious Time' and then the public would have accepted it.

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The Sri Lankan Paradox Wednesday, 24 July 2024 09:59 AM

So once again all of us are impatiently waiting to elect the wrong President with a Kaithiray (Wrong sign). Five years since a vast majority 6.9Mn made this choice of selecting the Wrong President. If we on one side believe we have lived a 76 year curse, on the other side we must realise it is us voters who chose our leaders (now it looks like wrong leaders) democratically. So in the event there are Right Presidents who contest we as a nation will never elect them! In 2029 we will be lamenting of a 81 year curse. We must be the Change if not we miss the bus as always. Even the much hyped JVP (now called Malimawa) had 38 seats in parliament and at the next democratically held election it reduced to 3 seats. Tried Tested and Failed. Why? Because they too only knows to deceive people like the rest of them. Ironically Ranil W is one leader whom we never chose! Is it because he is the Right President who spoke the bitter truth or is it because he is not the Wrong President?

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Cant eat the same Food for five years Wednesday, 24 July 2024 10:12 AM

If we are unhappy with the current government because of hardships, do we have any other candidate who at this moment of time can promise to reduce taxes, increase salaries and reduce government employees to reduce government expenditure? None of the candidates are promising anything new and constructive. Even if the JVP comes govt employees have to be reduced, taxes must remain as planned and only reduced (treshhold etc) as per current plans in 2026 (late 2025 best case), only the already committed salary hikes can be offered. These are the hard truths that are dodged. One chance Sri Lanka has is if a new government convinces the Sri Lankan diaspora to invest their heard earned dollars in Sri Lanka either for SME company establishment or in our NRFC deposits. Increasing exports even the current government is already on the job. So what are we really trying to achieve? Corruption will definitely remain as long as the Givers (voters) love to give.

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Roshanaly Wednesday, 24 July 2024 11:27 AM

25th has become 26th.

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Abd Wednesday, 24 July 2024 12:25 PM

Commissioner of elections seems trying his best to give more time to RW to play his next trick ,in other hand, now people start to believe EC is politically aligned with RW

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Daily Mirror Humbug useless to give name Wednesday, 24 July 2024 12:51 PM

Only our stooges are entertained. That's our policy on politics

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AJ Thursday, 25 July 2024 06:45 AM

EC seems like a puppet of RW, who plays according to RW’s whims and fancies

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