Only 28 candidates and their nominating parties have submitted the complete election expenditure reports in last month’s presidential election.
The Election Commission in a statement said that the deadline to submit election expenditure reports was on Sunday, 13th, October, by which time only 35 candidates had submitted their reports.
Out of these, seven candidates’ nominating parties failed to submit their expenditure reports, even though the candidates submitted their individual reports.
Meanwhile, Presidential candidates Battaramulle Seelarathana thero, independent candidate Sarath Keerthirathna and Tamil common candidate Pakkiyaselvam Ariyanethiran have not submitted their expenditure reports, the Election Commission said. (Newswire)