CMEV confirms that the overall voting environment on election day was relatively peaceful, although it has recorded 310 incidents of varying seriousness across the country. The highest number of complaints were received from the Western (85), Uva (42), Central (37), Southern (37), and North Western (37) provinces, with the Gampaha (52), Badulla (26), Matara (22), Puttalam (19), Kandy (18) ...
CMEV notes with concern that the number of serious election-related violations has more than doubled from the presidential election (125) to the parliamentary election (290). This is despite the campaign period being of slightly shorter duration, as well as inspite of the election process generating significantly less momentum at all levels, including by voters, candidates and their supporters. In ...
Click Here to download the File Parliamentary Election 2024, Sri Lanka Air Time Provided for Candidates during the Main News Bulletin (Evening News Belt) of TV Channels from 17th October to 14th November, 2024 – (Data will be presented by Minutes Vs. TV Channels for Candidates of Political Parties or Independent Groups). TV Channels CMEV Media Monitoring Plan for the ...
The people of Sri Lanka have been enjoying right to elect people’s representatives through the system of universal franchise since 1931, thus establishing one of the defining bases of a functioning democracy. During the last nine decades National, Provincial, District and Local Government elections as well as a national referendum was held and many new electoral laws and amendments were ...
At the end of the campaign period CMEV notes with concern that what began as a peaceful public election campaign has escalated into a relatively contentious and potentially troubling situation during the last ten days, moving from 09 incidents recorded per day on 02 September to 96 recorded on 15 September, as can be seen from the following graphs. The ...
The first two to three weeks of the campaign were fine, with a minimal number of violent incidents, but we have seen an extreme increase in violations and violence, escalating into a contentious and troubling situation during the last ten days , Professor Arjuna Parakrama of the Center for Monitoring Election Violence (CMEV). He said the incidents have risen from ...
Local election monitors in Sri Lanka have raised concerns over the misuse of state resources by the current president’s independent group during the campaign for the 2024 presidential election and urge the Election Commission to take “decisive action” to halt such violations and uphold the “integrity of the election process”. President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who is contesting as an independent candidate ...
Local election monitors in Sri Lanka have raised concerns over the misuse of state resources by the current president’s independent group during the campaign for the 2024 presidential election and urge the Election Commission to take “decisive action” to halt such violations and uphold the “integrity of the election process”. President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who is contesting as an independent candidate ...
Shabeer Mohamed ‘Chanda Salli Meetare’ is designed to provide voters with critical information to make informed decisions, ensure fairness among candidates and promote a transparent electoral process. It supports the implementation of the Regulation of Election Expenditure Act and aims to enhance transparency and accountability in Sri Lankan elections. The tool’s website, http://chandasallimeetare.lk, provides profiles of presidential candidates detailing ...
By Ishu Bandara The Election Commission (EC) has long advocated the implementation of an advanced voting law to ensure every voter casts his or her vote, but despite its efforts, the Cabinet has yet to approve the EC’s proposal. Election Commissioner General Saman Sri Rathnayake told the Sunday Timesmany voters, such as doctors on duty, fishermen at sea, and prisoners ...
This report examines the delimitation process for local government authorities (LGAs) in Sri Lanka since 2012. The change in the electoral system for LGAs from the proportional representation (PR) based electoral system to the ward-based, mixed-member proportional (MMP) system in 2012 necessitated that delimitation be conducted for all LGAs to determine ward boundaries. In that time, two LGA delimitation ...
CMEV and the Election Commission of Sri Lanka collaboratively attended a roundtable discussion on boundary delimitation and malapportionment from 28 to 29 October 2023 held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. International IDEA, Perludem, Bersih and Tindak Malaysia had jointly organized the roundtable with the objectives of identifying various forms and ways of the occurrence of malapportionment and gerrymandering in the countries ...
205 participants who completed the Certificate Course on Election Observation received their awards on 23 October 2023 at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute. The course was conducted by the CMEV as an initiative to expand the horizon of election monitoring with innovative Digital technology. It is well accepted that the traditional methods of election monitoring are not able to cover ...
The training on the third and fourth Modules of certificate courses for the protective CMEV Monitors was conducted on September 30 and October 01, 2023, for the first batch which included 70 prospective monitors. Participants included 36 Males, 33 Females and 01 LGBTIQ community member. The training was conducted as a two-day residential training at TI Rathana Community Training Centre ...
The Civil Society Collective for Democracy, also known by its slogan ‘Stand for Democracy’, a coalition of concerned citizens and organizations, including civilsociety organizations, professionals, academics, trade unions, youth leaders, activists, media personnel, religious figures, and other influencers, convened today (2023.08.29) at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute (SLFI) to deliver a crucial wake-up call to the nation’s political leaders. The ...
On 13 August 2023, CMEV conducted an awareness-raising discussion on citizens ’rights andparticipatory democracy with a group of youths at Kanthale. The program had organized by NationalCollaboration Development Foundation (NCDF) in collaboration with Kanthale Youth Centre.In the first half of the discussion, Mr. D.M. Dissanayake AAL, discussed the meaning of nationality andthe different ways of people can get nationality in ...
CMEV goes to Citizens Centre for Monitoring Election Violence (CMEV) conducted a series of citizen awareness discussions in Galle and Matara Districts from July 26 – 28, 2023. The objective of the program was to increase the understanding of women, youth, Persons with Disabilities and other members of other marginalized groups of their citizenry rights and duties in a democratic ...
