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| Reject General’s Presidential election petition: Elections Commissioner requests Court |
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(Lanka-e-News, July 21, 2010, 11.30 PM) The Elections Commissioner Dayananda Dissanayake had filed preliminary objections in the Supreme Court requesting the Court to reject the Presidential election petition of Gen. Sarath Fonseka on the ground that it is not in keeping with and conforming to the legal requirements.
The preliminary objection of the Election Commissioner is based on the fact that Fonseka has not adduced adequate written evidence to support that during the Presidential elections, the stories published and spread by Wimal Weerawansa, Kalinga Indratissa and Sarath Kohongahage ,Attorneys at law, that Gen. Fonseka had joined with the Tamil National Alliance are false. Under the Presidential elections Act, this evidence is imperative, the preliminary objection points out. |
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Gen. Fonseka in his petition had stated that at the last Presidential elections there were uncontrolled malpractices and election rigging . Therefore he sought a Court order declaring the election of Mahinda Rajapakse as the President as null and void., and that Gen. Fonseka was the duly elected President.
The President, the Elections Commissioner and all candidates of the Presidential elections have been cited as respondents in Fonseka’s petition.
The Election s Commissioner had also stated in his objection that notices have not been duly issued on the respondents. |
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