A British data analysis firm Cambridge Analytica had offered to influence elections in Sri Lanka, in a undercover video shot by Channel 4 television. Channel Four investigators sent what appeared to be a political agent from Sri Lanka and his assistant to meet with Cambridge Analytica executives, but they were secretly recording. They told them ...
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The national television of India Dhooradarshan has defined the local government election in Sri Lanka as a referendum, for the current government which has been postponing the election since 2015. The Indian TV service also predicted that Sri Lanka Podujana... Read More
Opposition leader R. Sampanthan says no one is ready to allow the country to be destroyed. He was speaking at the 60th anniversary of the SriLankaElections Department held
Photo EPA/M.A.PUSHPA KUMARA via The Guardian Upon discovering I had been chosen as a short-term observer for the parliamentary election, it felt like Christmas had come early. Dallas to Doha to Colombo. And then on to Jaffna for the election! When I fly to Sri Lanka from the U.S., I usually feel somewhat slow for about […]
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23 Aug, 2015 (LBO) – Sri Lanka should amend election laws so that campaign funding of political parties is transparent and audited, says Mahinda Deshapriya, the island’s elections commissioner. “In future, political parties and candidates must be made to declare how much money they spend on election related activities, while there should be an audit […]
Aug 19, 2015 (LBO) – Sri Lanka had extremely low number of female candidates participating in the general election held this month, European election observers said. Sri Lanka signed key international instruments for equality between women and men, and the principals of equality and non-discrimination are constitutionally protected. “The delegation took note of the low […]
Live Updates : According to CMEV, 2010 general election had 524 incidents of violence compared with 316 in the 2015 general election (06.57 pm) ** Speaking at a special media briefing Elections Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya said they have received 226 minor election violation incidents and at least 50 people have been arrested in relation to […]
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Despina Efstathiou, right, an election observer of European Union shakes hands with a Sri Lankan polling officer as her colleague Carl Olle, second right watches at a polling material distribu…
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Sri Lankan election workers wait to leave for their respective voting centers after collecting polling material from a distribution center in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sunday, Aug. 16, 2015.The isla…
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankans were set to begin voting in Parliamentary elections Monday that will decide the political future of a former strongman leader seeking a comeback eight mon…
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Sri Lankan election workers wait to leave for their respective voting centers after collecting polling material from a distribution center in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sunday, Aug. 16, 2015.The isla…
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With a week to go before Sri Lanka people elect a new Parliament, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa predicted the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA), which had fielded him, to win “up to” 117 seats. However, a pre-election survey showed only 27.5% voters preferred him over his bête noir and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, Leader of the rival...
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Elections to the Pudukuduiruppu and Maritimepattu Pradeshiya Sabhas in the northern Mullaithivu district of Sri Lanka will be held on February 28, Elections Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya said.
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Less than a month after we had general elections in Mauritius, another Commonwealth country, Sri Lanka, organised Presidential election. Are there similarities between the two elections?
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By Charles Haviland BBC: President Mahinda Rajapaksa hopes to be re-elected to a third term in Sri Lanka’s election on Thursday. But what sort of a country has Sri Lanka become under Rajapaksa and his brothers? One day last month six astrologers were brought onto government television to discuss the prospects for the presidential election. ...
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“President Rajapaksa’s chief opinion pollster – who is a good contact of the embassy on other issues – shared with us the first findings from their initial survey. These initial responses indicated that potential voters had little interest in the symbolic issues” US Embassy Colombo informed Washington. The Colombo Telegraph found the leaked cable from […]
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| by Col. R. Hariharan[Answers to questions raised by an international news agency on the subject in an e-mail interview on Dec 23rd.]( December 24, 2014, Chennai, Sri Lanka Guardian) Any narrative on Sri Lanka would be incomplete if India's overwhelming influence in Sri Lanka is not considered. It comes from India's huge geographic size, economic strength and global political influence from times...
The Sri Lanka Army has said it will vacate camps in the country’s northern Jaffna Peninsula before crucial provincial elections in September. Despite the international publicity the move has attracted, Jaffna’s residents say there is no significant downtick in overall levels of militarization.
By J. S. Tissainayagam - The Sri Lanka Army has said it will vacate camps in the country’s northern Jaffna Peninsula before crucial provincial elections in September. Despite the international publicity the move has attracted, Jaffna’s residents say there is no significant downtick in overall levels of militarization. Elections to the Northern Provincial Council (NPC) next month ...
July 25, Colombo: The Elections Department of Sri Lanka says that anyone covering their faces at the polling booth would have to show their faces before being allowed to vote.
May 14, Colombo: Elections Commissioner of Sri Lanka Mahinda Deshapriya says he is yet to be informed of the provincial council elections for the Northern Province.
Sept 11, Colombo: The Elections Department of Sri Lanka is to gazette the names of the provincial councilors elected to the Sabaragamuwa, North Central and Eastern Provincial Councils.