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Polls chief won’t talk
Elections Commissioner Dayananda Dissanayake has continued to decline to comment on the date for the next Presidential elections. “I will not talk about the date of the Presidential elections,” Mr. Dissanayake told The Sunday Times amidst growing concern and speculation over the timing.

Many independent analysts say that in terms of the constitution, it is the Elections Commissioner who must decide on the date for the next presidential poll.

President Chandrika Kumaratunga and SLFP frontliners this week reiterated that the Presidential elections would not be held before November next year.
But with growing speculation over whether Premier Mahinda Rajapakse or Anura Bandaranaike would be the presidential candidate, a party Central Committee meeting where a decision was to be taken has been put off.

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