Keerthi Tennakoon at CaFFE Press on Sri Lanka Elections

            Oct. 1st, 2009 at Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Elections Commissioner totally blind to election law violations – CAFFE seriously charges

Media spokesman, Keerthi Tennekoon of CAFFE stated that, because the Elections Commissioner is taking no action against election law violations at this forthcoming Southern provincial Council elections, some of the candidates are openly and brazenly committing breach of election laws. As such this election will go down in election history as one where election malpractices were openly allowed to be committed.

At other elections, the elections Commissioner who holds discussions with the party secretaries weekly has had no discussions this time. The Commissioner has not even replied to the letter addressed to him by CAFFE in this regard. The Elections Commissioner has descended to such a level, CAFFE pinpointed. 
 
These facts were disclosed at a media briefing today (1) when he spoke about the present situation regarding the elections. 

The Elections Commissioner gave orders to remove the elections advertisements on either sides of his Office only after the media exposed these illegal acts. If the Elections Commissioner had any interest in halting these election malpractices, he has all the power to take action, he asserted.  

At the last elections, this is the same Commissioner who took the initiative in removing the stickers, and when the Police failed to remove the illegal posters, he went so far as to enlist the assistance of the Armed forces to remove them. But at this election the Commissioner is idly watching with open eyes without taking any action against the wrongdoers and election law offenders, Keerthi Tennekoon lamented.

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