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Wednesday, April 07, 2010 - 05.59 GMT |
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All necessary arrangements have been made to conduct free and fair General elections tomorrow (08 April).
According to People's Action for Free and Fair Elections (PAFFREL), 16 international election observers are continuing pre-polls monitoring in selected districts including in Jaffna. The international observers will operate in eight districts.
Elections will be held in 22 electoral districts with 7620 candidates contesting.
58,700 police personnel will be deployed for election duties while another 19,500 personnel from the three forces, Army, Air Force and Navy - will also assist the police for the elections and the post election period to ensure peace.
“We are strong and organized to face any situation during the general elections 2010 and post elections. If any person or persons attempted to create problems or disturb the peaceful elections they will be severely dealt with according to the law, said Inspector General of Police Mahinda Balasuriya yesterday (06 April) at a media briefing at the Police Headquarters.
According to a directive from Elections Commissioner Dayananda Dissanayake, the Police have removed 16,325 cut-outs, 6556 banners, 21,102 flags and 28,735 posters before the election day, quoting the IGP, Daily News reported.
The IGP appealed to all the agents of candidates who are allowed to enter the counting centres to avoid taking their Mobile telephones into the centres. If any agent is found with the Mobile telephone, he will not be allowed to enter the Counting centres, the IGP further said.
The IGP stated that the Election Laws are valid till April 15.
The Elections Commissioner had indicated to Police that if any major incident takes place in any of the polling booths, that he will cancel the election in that area, the IGP said.
Maximum security will provide for transporting ballot boxes to the 22 counting centres. Each candidate would permit one person to follow the vehicle carrying the ballot boxes to the counting centres, Senior DIG Navaratne said.
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