{"id":167907,"date":"2016-09-20T11:34:24","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T06:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=167907"},"modified":"2016-09-20T23:59:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T18:29:49","slug":"paffrel-goes-to-court-over-local-government-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/paffrel-goes-to-court-over-local-government-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"PAFFREL Goes To Court Over Local Government Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The People\u2019s Action for Free and Fair Elections (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=PAFFREL&amp;x=7&amp;y=6\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">PAFFREL<\/span><\/a>) has filed a fundamental rights petition in the Supreme Court seeking an order for authorities to hold the local government election. The Supreme Court has fixed the case for support on October 7.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_160514\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Faiszer-Musthapha.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-160514\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-160514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Faiszer-Musthapha-150x149.jpg\" alt=\"Faiszer Musthapha\" width=\"150\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Faiszer-Musthapha.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Faiszer-Musthapha-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-160514\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Faiszer Musthapha<\/p><\/div>\n<p>PAFFREL has filed the petition citing Provincial Councils and Local Government Minister Faiszer Musthapha, the Provincial Councils and Local Government Ministry Secretary, Elections Commission Chairman Mahinda Deshapriya and nine others as the respondents.<\/p>\n<p>In the petition, PAFFREL said that the Provincial Councils and Local Government Minister have continuously postponed the election which was to be held in 2015 and 2016. &#8220;By postponing the election, which allows Sri Lankan citizens to select their representatives to the local government institutions, the Minister has denied and restricted the sovereignty of the people of Sri Lanka,&#8221; PAFFREL said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":167909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2186,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-featured-news","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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