With Presidential Elections only a few months away there is a sudden focus on a different type of elections- Provincial Council (PC) elections. Rajapaksa held elections to two or three PCs at a time, picking and choosing which councils would go to polls together. The UNP has remained non-committal, making statements about the need to expedite provincial polls but in reality, doing little to achieve that. Then there is the affable Chairman of the Elections Commission, Mahinda Deshapriya threatening to resign if PC polls are not held by November 10 this year. The reality is that each political party is working towards its own agenda- and worrying about the Presidential Election instead of the provincial polls.

Source: Sunday Observer July 20, 2019 19:18 UTC