The National Election Commission (EC) must conduct elections for all Local Government (LG) bodies before 2 June, People’s Action for Free and Fair Elections (PAFFREL) Executive Director Rohana Hettiarachchi said.

Hettiarachchi said that the LG Elections will be held on 6 May as scheduled, however, there is a possibility of the Elections being delayed for some LG bodies due to legal challenges. He said that if courts take a considerable time to hear and pronounce judgments on the challenges made by parties, elections for such LG bodies will be delayed. He said that regardless of the issues, the EC is bound by the law to conclude the Elections before 2 June.

Meanwhile, the EC has stated that arrangements were made to hand over the reserved packets containing the registered postal ballot papers for 114 LG institutions to the Postal Department yesterday (7). The Chairperson of the EC, R.M.A.L. Rathnayake stated that following the judicial process, necessary steps will be taken to distribute postal ballots to the remaining LG institutions.