Elections Commissioner (EC) Mahinda Deshapriya has ordered Assistant Election Commissioners, stationed at electoral district level, to speed up the work on the removal of unauthorized political party offices and cutouts, officials said yesterday.
A political party is entitled to have a campaign office covering each polling district. There are as many as 12,021 polling districts in the 22 electoral districts. Besides, one main office can be set up at each electoral district.
An official of the Election Department said all unauthorized political party offices and cutouts would be removed. He said, in certain instances, political parties used abandoned buildings as their offices, merely for the display of cutouts.
“There is no one occupying these buildings to operate the campaign activities. They are used solely to display cutouts. Those are counted as unauthorized places,” he said.
