INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The final result of the Presidential Election 2019 will be released by noon on November 18, Election Commission Chairman Mahinda Deshapriya
told news media yesterday
If a second count of preferential votes was required, then the result would be announced by the evening of that day, he said.Addressing a
press conference at the Media Centre of the Election Secretariat in Rajagiriya yesterday, Deshapriya said that the counting of postal votes
would start at 5.15pm on November 16 and the counting of other votes would start at 7pm.
