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Certain clauses inconsistent with Constitution:
Special majority needed for Bill’s passage
Speaker W. J. M. Lokubandara yesterday told
Parliament the Supreme Court has determined that certain clauses of
the Bill titled ‘Parliamentary Elections (Amendment)’ are
inconsistent with the Constitution and a two third’s majority is
needed to pass the Bill in Parliament.
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Changes to Elections Act imminent
The Parliamentary Select Committee on Electoral
Reforms presided over by the Chief Government Whip and Urban
Development and Sacred Area Development Minister Dinesh Gunawardena
has made a number of recommendations to change some of the
provisions of the Parliamentary Elections Act No.1 of 1981.
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