Nomination period ends for Sri Lanka elections
Posted by Editor on February 26, 2010 - 5:20 pm
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Sri Lanka’s election department says it has completed the nomination period for April’s parliamentary vote. The April 8 poll is crucial for President Mahinda Rajapaksa to further tighten his grip on power by securing a majority in the 225-member legislature. Rajapaksa was re-elected to office in January.
The parliamentary vote is expected to be a contest between Rajapaksa’s alliance and two opposition coalitions, one of which is led by former army commander Sarath Fonseka who is in detention on allegations of sedition.
An election official says his department is still perusing nomination papers before releasing the number of contestants.
Source: AP
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Aney Anoma Akka,
Hope you are able to conduct a good campaign with your friend, Somawansa. Now that the $500,000 is in safe hands, you and your goons will have to do a grassroots election campaign. have you thought about what you will do if you win majority seats? Who will be your Prime Minister? Will you ask President rajapaksa to vacate Temple Trees? Do you expect the Tamils in Colombo to vote for you? Not this time! Only money launderers will vote for you to protect their interests. maybe, ex-LTTE money and drug smugglers and credit card fraudsters will support you.
Anoma Akka, there is one thing you can do to restore your credibility. Tell us, publicly, where your daughter got the US $’s which her mother-in-law kept in her vault?
Was the body of Prabaharan which your husband showed on TV to the world, the real body? Where did he get the plastic face mask?
Sri Lanka has found true political, social and econmic leadership in the Rajapaksa family. This election gives the people of Sri Lanka an opportunity to provide the Rajapaksa family with a 2/3 majority so that they can write a new constitution. We are on the threshold of a new nation, It is the duty of every patriotic citizen including war heros to join the Rajapaksa family in the emancipation of this nation.
Anoma Akka, please give up your petty ambitions and join the rest of the citizenry.
DEAR Madam, You can cry again. bez now will come election meeting.