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Currently, the City Council has accepted Maher’s recommendation to meet every Wednesday—in addition to regular Monday meetings—until a mayor is selected, if a conclusion isn’t reached by Feb. 22. A candidate needs five votes to be named mayor...
Decker was a candidate for mayor earlier this year, but withdrew from the race. Since then both she and Simmons have announced that they are running in the special election for the Mass. State Senate Seat from which Anthony D. Galluccio resigned in January.
General Sarath Fonseka, the defeated candidate in Sri Lanka's recent presidential election, was arrested by military police at his Colombo residence Monday night, Feb. 8. The government said Fonseka, the former army commander, had been arrested on charges of "committing military offenses," but it offered no details. Lakshman Hulugalle...
The government has previously accused Fonseka of organizing a coup and planning to assassinate President Mahinda Rajapaksa and two of his brothers, Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa and member of parliament Basil Rajapaksa. Fonseka, who was once a powerful ally of Rajapaksa, led the military campaign that defeated the Tamil separatist...
The government is expected to dissolve parliament in the next few days and call legislative elections. Fonseka had indicated that he would be a candidate and had been negotiating an electoral pact with opposition parties when the arrest took place.