General Elections: Over 900 fail to submit expense reports

Colombo, December 10 (Daily Mirror) - Over 900 candidates who contested the General Elections have failed to submit their income and expenditure reports to the Election Commission, with the deadline ended on December 6.

According to the Commission, 949 of the 8,361 candidates have not submitted their expense reports.

Of the 527 members on the national list, only 434 have submitted expense reports.

Commenting on the situation, Commission's Chairman R. M. A. L. Rathnayake told Daily Mirror that the failure to meet the deadline constitutes a breach of the Regulation of Election Expenditure Act, with violators facing legal consequences.

“Accordingly, the names of the candidates who failed to submit the reports will be handed over to the police for further action under Penal Code,” the Chief said.