- Campaigning prohibited while 13,314 constituency based party offices are to be removed by tonight
COLOMBO : The Election campaigning activities for the 2024 Presidential Election ended at midnight Wednesday, (18).
Accordingly, the silent period will be in effect from midnight yesterday until the Election will be held on 21 September.
During this period, any form of election campaign activities is prohibited, and the Police is authorised to arrest any parties that violate Election rules and to enforce the law.
The Election Commission Chairperson R.M.A.L. Rathnayake stated that all election offices established by political parties must be removed by midnight today (19). From that point, only the Election office related to the division can be maintained. “Apart from that, all 13,314 constituency based offices currently established will be removed by midnight today. Only one new Electoral office can be established at the constituency level,” he said. He requested that all candidates remove the Election offices currently in operation and warned that if they do not remove them, the Police will take the necessary steps to do so.
Rathnayake also mentioned that voters who have not yet received their official polling cards still have the opportunity to collect them from their local post office.: the morning daily
