The polls close in just a few minutes in Sri Lanka where more women than ever are hoping to get elected into government.
Voters are choosing representatives in more than three hundred local elections.
A change in the law now requires women to fill a quarter of all seats.
Al Jazeera’s Minelle Fernandez reports from Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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