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Tuesday, May 13  2008
      Editorial:Slaying the hydra of election malpractice

The verdict of the International polls observer group, which monitored Saturday’s Eastern Provincial Council Polls, is that the elections were conducted peacefully and in an orderly manner. There was no stuffing of ballot boxes, the group of 17 observers was from the Association of Asian Election Authority Observer Mission said yesterday.
Addressing a press conference in ...

United National Party and Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe with Sri Lanka Muslim Congress leader Rauf Hakeem, who recently resigned from his membership of parliament to contest the first ever Eastern Provincial Council election, at yesterday’s joint press conference giving reasons for their defeat at the polls. Pic by Kamal Bogoda

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UNP, SLMC to launch street protests
against vote  rigging at EPCE

The UNP and SLMC yesterday promised street protests to highlight "widespread ballot rigging by UPFA gangs comprising ministers, parliamentarians and the TMVP", at Saturday’s Eastern Provincial ...

JVP dissidents apply to register new party
The JVP’s Wimal Weerawansa faction yesterday submitted documents to the Commissioner of Elections seeking the registration of their new poitical party Tthe Nidahas Janatha Peramuna with the crown as its symbol.
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