The Hon. Gayantha Karunathilleka
Gayantha Karunathilleka referred to the President’s Budget statement allocating funds for Provincial Council Elections and requesting Parliament to establish a mechanism, noting that the Leader of the House had indicated a ministerial update on forming a committee. He urged the Government to fulfil its promise to hold the elections within a year and said the Opposition would support a swift process under the previous mixed proportional system or any other speedy mechanism, without delays caused by delimitation or unnecessary committees.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Speaker, when presenting the Budget, the President said funds were allocated for Provincial Council Elections and requested that Parliament arrange a mechanism. At yesterday’s Committee on Parliamentary Business, the Leader of the House indicated that today the subject Minister would inform the House regarding appointing a committee. We say this: the Government promised the people to hold Provincial Council Elections within a year. If the elections are held under the previous mixed proportional system, they can be conducted swiftly; as Opposition we will fully support that, without wasting time on delimitation and committees unnecessarily. We are ready to cooperate for an early election under the old mixed proportional, or any speedy mechanism.
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Cite as: The Hon. Gayantha Karunathilleka. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 19 November 2025. No. 22931. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/14060