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Download PDF of this press release here. Download in Tamil here. ### 12 January 2015 CMEV continued to monitor the post election situation and note several incidents reported in the period 9-12 January. At present CMEV has recorded 11 major incidents and 6 incidents in the post poll period. There is one casualty from post poll violence and several instances of assault, threat and intimidation. CMEV notes that...
Download a PDF of this letter here. ### H.E Maithripala Sirisena President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Presidential Secretariat” Colombo 01 10th January 2015 Your Excellency, Request for a Depoliticised Public Service and Introduction of Reforms We write to you as two independent election monitoring bodies which have monitored elections in Sri Lanka for several years and proposed electoral reform. We write to urge you...
Download this as a PDF in English here. ### CMEV deployed a total of approximately 4,500 monitors in the field, in polling stations and in mobile teams in the 2015 Presidential Election. On Election Day, CMEV recorded 223 incidents with 101 major incidents and 122 minor incidents. Out of the 223 incidents CMEV documented 124 incidents against the ruling UPFA with unknown actors cited as the alleged perpetrator...