Colombo, March 22 -- Complications in fulfilling the requirements to include stipulated percentages of female and youth representation in lists, as well as lack of supporting documents of the contestants have led to a significant number of nominations lists from every political party getting rejected this time, the Election Commission said.

A number of nominations lists submitted on Thursday by almost every main political party and independent group for 366 bodies countrywide for the upcoming local government elections got rejected by the respective Returning Officers owing to various reasons as reported by the latter to the Election Commission of Sri Lanka (ECSL).

When inquired, a senior official of the ECSL told the Daily Mirror that ...