EC proceeding with Presidential polls Awaiting Proclamation – Dy. Commissioner 


By Ravi Ladduwahetty- November 3, 2014

The Elections Commissioner's Department will proceed with the preparatory work for the 2015 Presidential Polls and is awaiting the Presidential proclamation to be issued by President Mahinda Rajapaksa after 19 November.
19 November marks four years of completion of President Mahinda Rajapaksa's second term in office, as he took oaths on 19 November 2010 and he is constitutionally empowered to issue the Presidential proclamation only after completing four years, in office.
 

" We are ready to commence the preparatory work for the Presidential Elections and we are waiting for the Presidential proclamation," Deputy Commissioner of Elections M. M. Mohamed told Ceylon Today.
The Deputy Commissioner's comments to this newspaper came close on the heels of Elections Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya refusing to comment on the holding or not of the Presidential polls following the UNP and the JVP imploring the Department not to hold the Presidential Poll, claiming that President Mahinda Rajapaksa was not empowered to contest the Presidency a third time.
" I have no comment to make to any media at this stage and please leave me alone, Deshapriya told Ceylon Today in a terse reply when contacted for comment.