SRI LANKAN PRESIDENT SETS 5 JAN FOR SNAP POLLS

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has signed a special gazette notification dissolving Parliament and declaring 5 January 2019 as the date for a snap parliamentary election. The President said late Friday that Parliament would stand dissolved from Saturday 12 a.m. and nominations for the parliamentary elections would be called from 19 to 26 November. Another report said ousted Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s party the United National Party would file a case in the Supreme Court against the early dissolution of Parliament.