The National Election Commission informs that postal voting of the 2023 Local Government election has been postponed indefinitely.

Postal voting for the LG polls was due to be held on the 22nd, 23rd, 24th and 27th of February.

Commissioner General of Elections Saman Sri Ratnayake said the Government Printer failed to provide the ballot papers for postal voting in due course thereby resulting in the postponement of postal voting and the dates to conduct postal voting will be announced in the future.

The 2023 LG polls were scheduled to be held on March 09 this year.