Gazette issued declaring Gotabaya President

Gazette issued declaring Gotabaya President

November 18, 2019   10:22 am

The Gazette Extraordinary declaring that Gotabaya Rajapaksa has been elected as the President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka has been issued.

The Gazette has been issued by the Elections Commission on the 17th of November, 2019.

The gazette declared that Gotabaya Rajapaksa as the President of the country under Section 56 of the Presidential Elections Act, No. 15 of 1981.

The Gazette has been signed by the tri-member Elections Commission:

Mahinda Deshapriya (Chairman)
N. J. Abeysekere (member)
S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole (member)

2149-34 Presidential Elections Act No 15 of 1981 by Ada Derana on Scribd

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