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The curtain will drop at 12.00 midnight today on the hectic and closely fought 44-day propaganda campaign for Saturday‘s presidential election to elect the 7th executive president of Sri Lanka.The Election Commission (EC) in its gazette notice announced that the presidential election will be held on November 16, 2019, while nominations were accepted on October 7 from 35 candidates representing 19 political parties, 13 independent groups and three other parties.