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Election Commission to begin implementing campaign finance laws
View(s):By Damith Wickremasekara
Beginning next week, the Elections Commission will start implementing campaign finance laws ahead of the presidential election this year, followed by parliamentary elections, a senior official said.
Election Commission Chairman R.M.A.L. Ratnayake told the Sunday Times that the preparation and issuing of Gazette notifications related to elections and the briefing of relevant officials and political party secretaries will begin tomorrow.
Within the next two weeks, officials from the Police Department, the Bribery Commission, the Inland Revenue Department, the Auditor General’s Department, and the Attorney General’s Department will be summoned for briefings on the implementation of campaign finance laws and resolving issues regarding their implementation.
The polls chief said that to overcome certain issues regarding implementation, gazette notifications would need to be issued, and they were being prepared.
Mr. Ratnayake said that during the briefings, the institutions would be informed about the role they would be playing in implementing the campaign finance laws.
He said that a Gazette notification would be issued on the limitations imposed on candidates on expenses for their campaign. A similar gazette notification was issued for the local council elections, which were subsequently postponed.
After the Gazette notification is issued, the relevant agencies will be expected to assist in the monitoring process of the expenses for the campaign.
Political party secretaries would be informed about the campaign limits and urged to convey to their parties the restrictions on expenses. The election monitoring groups, too, would be briefed on the implementation process.
The Regulation of Election Expenditure Bill was passed in January last year.
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