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Preference to vanquished over victors, post LG polls
View(s):Politicians of several parties, named on the Preferential List, have expressed their displeasure at their party leaders’ decisions to nominate members defeated at the local council elections. Several of them have openly condemned the manner in which nominees were selected, saying there were no criteria on how the defeated members were selected.
In Kandy, a senior UNP member, though nominated No.1 on the Kandy List, and assured of a place in the council, before the elections, found a defeated candidate from the Dangolla area nominated, after the polls.
The senior party member had served the Council for 20 years, but had been overlooked in favour of a new member who will sit in the Council though defeated. Political party representatives pointed out that Election laws should make it clear that defeated candidates cannot be nominated in preference to members in the list.