Saturday December 5 is a public holiday |02 December 2015

President James Michel has, by proclamation in the Official Gazette, and in accordance with Section 5 of the Public Holidays Act, declared Saturday December 5, 2015 as a public holiday.

This will ease voting in the presidential election on Mahé, Praslin and La Digue on that day.

Voters working on outlying islands will start going to the polls tomorrow and on Friday December 4. The main polling day is Saturday December 5.