Sri Lankan Government's Printer Requests Funds To Print Ballot Papers
NDTV
The Sri Lankan government's printer Gangani Liyanage on Thursday made written requests to both the Treasury Secretary and police chief to hold the much-delayed local council elections now scheduled for April 25.
The Sri Lankan government's printer Gangani Liyanage on Thursday made written requests to both the Treasury Secretary and police chief to hold the much-delayed local council elections now scheduled for April 25.
Liyanage's office said the printer in her letter to K M Mahinda Siriwardana, the Secretary to the Treasury, asked for money -- a shortage of which caused the postponement of the election originally scheduled for March 9.
Her inability to print the ballot papers to conduct the postal voting from February 21 to 24 had earlier caused the Elections Commission to postpone the elections.
Liyanage said that by the time the elections were postponed, she had only received Rs 40 million out of the estimated full cost of Rs 500 million.
