Sri Lanka, June 23 -- Independent election monitors have ruled out the possibility of holding Provincial Council elections before the Presidential polls planned for December this year.
Despite a series of court cases pending before the Supreme Court and the Appeal Courts to speed up holding elections in eight Provincial Councils - Sabaragamuwa, North Central, Eastern, Central, North Western, Northern, Western and Southern - some of which have been lapsed over two years back, the delay in hearing the court cases might evaporate all hopes of holding the elections before November, the monitors said.
The next hearing of the Court of Appeal case has been fixed for September this year. "This is the reason why we asked for a special court to hea...