Sri Lanka sees less election complaints than in previous years
COLOMBO – Sri Lanka’s Election Commission received 188 complaints on Monday (11) when campaigning for the November 14 parliamentary election officially ceased.
A majority of the complaints were on election law violations, with only one incident reported of actual violence.
Total number of complaints received by the commission since the election was declared on September 26 was 2,999.
The number of incidents is considerably less compared to the 8,683 reported in the previous parliamentary election in August 2022.
Historically, Sri Lanka has seen violent incidents sometimes leading to deaths, in the run-up to general elections as not just candidates from opposing parties, but also inter-party contenders vie for preference votes.
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