Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) Director Surangi Ariyawansa yesterday said that the organization had received a total of 103 complaints thus far.
“We received complaints on Monday, at the end of the handing over of nomination papers of the Presidential candidates,” Ariyawansha said. She said about seven incidents related to the upcoming Presidential Election had been reported during the period of the handing over of nominations.
“Posters were pasted in many places in the country and the majority of the posters were of the three main candidates.”
“Several complaints had been lodged at the Elections Commission in connection with large-size cutouts erected for the candidates,” she said.
“In one incident reported from Sainthamaruthu, Kalmunai, posters had been smeared with black engine oil, Ariyawansha said.
“Special programmes have been launched by the CaFFE deploying 7,500 observers countrywide to monitor vote-buying and the granting of various privileges,” she said.
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