Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena says that there are provisions in the constitution to ban parliament for 7 years if anyone tries to get photos of the ballot paper used to elect the president.
He mentioned this while starting the parliamentary proceedings today and informing the MPs about the voting process.
The speaker requested the MPs to hand over the mobile phone they have at the time of marking the vote to the concerned officials as no member of parliament can take his mobile phone to the polling place and if anyone has their mobile phone, two special officials will be kept to hand it over.
The General Secretary of the Parliament is acting as the Electoral Officer of this poll and he is currently informing the MPs about how the poll will be conducted.
