Six parties are banned from general elections.

The Election Commission has decided not to allow 06 major parties to compete in the upcoming general elections.

Accordingly, the United People’s Freedom Alliance, the Elover Democratic Front, the United Lanka Mahasabha Party, the Lanka People’s Party, the United Lanka Podujana Party and the Sri Lanka Progressive Front will not have the opportunity to contest the upcoming elections.

It is said that the problems that have arisen in relation to the secretaries of those parties are the reasons for that.