SL Election Commission says presidential election should be held within 1 year

<p>Sri Lanka's Election Commission said according to their assessment a presidential election should be held before December 9, 2019 and a general election by October 2020.&nbsp;</p> <p>The EC chairman said this week they would be seeking a Supreme Court judgement on the holding of Provincial Council elections.&nbsp;</p> <p>Rejecting assertions that the EC was responsible for delaying the polls, the chairman, Mahinda Deshapriya, was quoted by the Daily Mirror as saying, they were not responsible for the delay.&nbsp;</p> <p>"The PC elections can be held after the finalisation of the delimitation process or under the previous electoral system or under the mixed system or under the new system."&nbsp;</p> <p>In his resignation letter, Mahinda Rajapaksa criticised&nbsp;the UNP's postponing of elevtions.&nbsp;</p> <p>"No one has any inkling in such a way that those elections will be held," he wrote.&nbsp;"The law has been manipulated in such a way that those elections will be put off indefinitely."</p>