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08:38, May 09, 2008 |
Sri Lanka's Appeal Court on Thursday rejected a plea by a Tamil political party to issue an interim order postponing Saturday's election for the Eastern Provincial Council.
Court officials said the request made by the People's Liberation of Tamil Eelam had been refused.
The election to be held on Saturday would appoint 35 members to the newly created eastern provincial council after the province was de-merged from the Northern Province in 2006.
Meanwhile, independent election monitoring groups have reported very low voter enthusiasm in the run-up to the election.
Batticaloa, Ampara and Trincomalee are three districts in the multi-ethnic Eastern Province where all three communities Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim enjoy almost equal presence.
The government treats Saturday's election as a test of its popularity after it regained the Eastern Province from the Tamil Tigers' control in July last year.
Source:Xinhua
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