Nominations for the upcoming Local Government Elections will be accepted from March 17, 2025 to March 20, 2025, the Elections Commission announced.
The deadline for submissions is 12 noon on the final day.
The relevant gazette notification has already been sent for printing, according to Additional Election Commissioner M.M.S.K. Bandara Mapa.
However, the Commission did not announce the date for the elections, which originally were to be held in January 2023.
The polls were delayed after then President Ranil Wickremesinghe declared there were no funds to hold the elections after the country faced an unprecedented economic crisis in 2022.
The new government led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake passed the Local Authorities Elections (Special Provisions) Bill on February 17 with an overwhelming majority to hold the delayed polls and allow the Election Commission to withdraw the previous election.