The voting for the presidential election
to elect seventh Executive President of Sri Lanka has begun 7 a.m this morning (16) at around 12,848 polling stations located islandwide .
35 Candidates including two Buddhist Monks ,A female ,A Minister and Dual Citizenship holder are being contested for the Presidency and 15,992,096 voters are being eligible to vote in the election.
As the highest number of candidates in history are being contested in this Presidential Election ,The ballot paper printed for the Election is more than two feet long .
Voters are being able to caste their vote for either one candidate or to mark preferential votes for three candidates in this Election according to the National Election Commission.
Foreign Election observers as well as local Election monitoring teams are observing the Election process of the presidential Election .More than 150,000 Election officers , 60,175 Police officers and 8080 Civil Defence Force personal are being deployed in Election duty for this year's presidential Election
This presidential election is the first election that the president,prime minister and opposition leader in office are not contesting .The total cost of the election is more Than 7500 million according to the estimates of National Election Commission
Voting is scheduled to be concluded at 5 P.m. today .
35 Candidates including two Buddhist Monks ,A female ,A Minister and Dual Citizenship holder are being contested for the Presidency and 15,992,096 voters are being eligible to vote in the election.
As the highest number of candidates in history are being contested in this Presidential Election ,The ballot paper printed for the Election is more than two feet long .
Voters are being able to caste their vote for either one candidate or to mark preferential votes for three candidates in this Election according to the National Election Commission.
Foreign Election observers as well as local Election monitoring teams are observing the Election process of the presidential Election .More than 150,000 Election officers , 60,175 Police officers and 8080 Civil Defence Force personal are being deployed in Election duty for this year's presidential Election
This presidential election is the first election that the president,prime minister and opposition leader in office are not contesting .The total cost of the election is more Than 7500 million according to the estimates of National Election Commission
Voting is scheduled to be concluded at 5 P.m. today .
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