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Election Observation During a Pandemic: CMEV Activity Report
Lockdown, quarantine, flattening the curve and shutdown are not the terms familiar to many. CMEV also faced
new experiences and challenges in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic situation. This document first provides an
overview of some of the interventions made by CMEV in this period. It also details media coverage of CMEV’s
activities and interventions. Finally, the document provides a snapshot of activity on CMEV’s official website and
Facebook pages, as indicators of CMEV’s online operations during this period.
The pre-election campaign period for the Parliamentary General Election 2020 was active since midnight of March
02, 2020 and CMEV has been recording an increasing number of campaign related complaints despite preferential
numbers for candidates not even being issued. Those complaints were not entirely related to conventional election
violence and violation related incidents as with elections in the past. Many of the complaints received were
connected to the politicisation of relief measures provided by the government in the wake of the pandemic.
One of the significant factors affecting CMEV’s work was attempting to run an election observation mission in a
context that did not allow for access to our head office with significant travel restrictions also been imposed on
our mobility. In addition, we have had to determine manner in which we are supposed to contribute to the election
process while it has been continuously postponed due to its uncertain legal foundation. Despite this, CMEV staff
have continued to carry out their duties as usual while being based at their respective residences during this
restricted context.
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Key Interventions
Below are some of the key interventions made by CMEV:
1. Publishing ‘Considerations for Holding an Election During the COVID-19 Pandemic’, a Briefing Paper
offering election stakeholders and voters an outline of how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected elections
worldwide; and important factors to note in the Sri Lankan electoral context.
2. Issuing a statement calling for postponing the Parliamentary General Election 2020 at the onset of the
pandemic situation on March 17, 2020
3. Acting in coordination with all other domestic election observation organisations to issue joint statement
urging all relevant authorities to resolve their issues regarding a new election date with the mutual
understanding of not creating a constitutional crisis against the backdrop of COVID19
4. Participating in designing health guidelines for the election on the Election Commission’s invitation, and
in collaboration with regional election observer network ANFREL and national election observer PAFFREL
5. Preparing a guideline on ‘Safety measures in elections, Election Dispute Resolution Systems and New
Approaches in the Midst of Pandemic Situations’ to submit to the Election Commission
6. Assisting in coordinating the essential supplies delivery and relief provision work of the NGO consortium
set up in response to COVID-19 with the participation of civil society organisations
7. Making complaints to the Election Commission and the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on pandemic
relief programme related election law violations, including the misuse of voter lists and abuse of powers
by a number of public authorities and officials regarding the LKR 5,000 relief measure
8. Conducting a series of webinars to share experiences and learnings with election stakeholders in Myanmar
targeting the general election of Myanmar to be held in November 2020, in partnership with Democracy
Reporting International, ANFREL and other election stakeholders in Myanmar
9. Assisting ANFREL with developing a Code of Conduct for all domestic election observation organisations
for election observation operations during the pandemic situation
Interventions referred to in points #1, #3 and #7 above
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Below are some of the regular interventions made by CMEV:
10. Publicising nominations information for the Parliamentary General Election 2020, including electorate and
national list level nominations from political parties and independent groups and statistics
11. Following through with complaints to the Election Commission and other authorities on regular election
law violations, including public officials engaging in election campaigning
12. Regular updates on CMEV social media channels about election-related news and developments
Interventions referred to in point #10 above
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Media Coverage
Date Source Headline Link
13/01/2020 Resa Newspaper රැස දෙවසරකින් ඉනික්බිතිව… Link
16/01/2020 Ceylon Today Wijeyadasa's 22nd Amendment opportunistic - Gajanayake Link
20/01/2020 TNLRN News Radio භික්බුන්ට දේශපාලනදෙන් ද ාර ජාතික වගකීමක්බ Link
21/01/2020 TNLRN News Radio Reveal stance on handing nominations to monks Link
21/01/2020 Colombo Telegraph The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions: Wijeyadasa’s ‘21st &
22nd Amendments’ Link
21/01/2020 Lankadeepa නිලධාරි සනුහදේට නොට අඳුදකාළ ජන ාවාදී ආකල්ප Link
24/01/2020 TNLRN News Radio CMEV commends move to amend election laws Link
24/01/2020 TNLRN News Radio ඡන්ෙෙ භාවි කිරීදේ නව ක්බ්රමදේෙ හඳුන්වාදීම ඇගයීමට ලක්බදවයි Link
26/01/2020 Sunday Observer UNP National List vacancy: Appointment of Saman Rathnapriya comes
under fire Link
10/02/2020 TNLRN News Radio සමාජදේ දියුණුවට ආගමික නාෙකෙන්දේ මැදිහත්වීම මදි Link
10/02/2020 TNLRN News Radio Clergy urged to play role to change the political culture Link
22/02/2020 Ceylon Today Social media during national polls: FB urged to consider candidate's
code of conduct and media guidelines Link
24/02/2020 TNLRN News Radio මැතිසබෙට ආ ජනප්රිෙ චරි කල දසේවෙ ගැන CMEV වාේ ාවක්බ හෙයි Link
24/02/2020 Lanka Leads News අලුතින් සිෙෙක්බ පාේිදේන්ුවට පැෆරල් සංවිධානෙ හා මාේු 12 ේ්ොපාරෙ
හමුදවයි…! Link
24/02/2020 Lanka News Web පාේිදේන්ු ආ ජනප්රිෙ චරි වල පැටිකිරිෙ දහාෙන්න ෙයි ! Link
24/02/2020 UTV News පාේිදේන්ුවට පිවිසි ජනප්රිෙ චරි කල දසේවෙ ගැන වාේ ාවක්බ සකසයි Link
26/02/2020 Sitha FM ATHTHADA - MANJULA GAJANAYAKA 2020 02 27 Link
02/03/2020 Ada Derana LIVE මැතිවරණ කාලදේදී අදපක්බෂකො සහ ජන ාවදේ හැසිරීම Link
03/03/2020 NewsFirst Sri Lanka අලුත්ව ෙවස | Dawasa, 03/03/2020 Link
03/03/2020 Mawbima සැබෑ ජන ා දසේවකෙන් ද ෝරා පත්වකරගමු Link
03/03/2020 CMEV සැබෑ ජන ා දසේවකෙන් ද ෝරාගමු! Link
14/03/2020 TNLRN News Radio EC must decide on the General Election-CMEV Link
14/03/2020 Colombo Times ඡන්ෙෙ කල්ොනවානේ කළ යුු දේ ගැන මැතිවරණ නිරිෂකයින්දගන් පැහැදිළි
කිරීමක්බ. Link
14/03/2020 Deshaya ඡන්දෙට පිටදපාට ගසන නිරීක්බෂණ සංවිධාන Link
16/03/2020 TNLRN News Radio Monitors 'concerned' over talks of Poll delay Link
16/03/2020 TNLRN News Radio මැතිවරණ දිනෙ ගැන තීරණෙක්බ ගන්න කින් පක්බෂ සමග සාකච්ඡා කරන්න ... Link
17/03/2020 The Morning Elections monitoring body calls for postponement of General
Elections Link
17/03/2020 The Sunday Times CMEV calls for postponement of General Elections Link
18/03/2020 Economy Next CMEV says free and fair elections unlikely under current conditions Link
18/03/2020 News First CMEV urges to postpone general election Link
18/03/2020 The World News CMEV urges to postpone general election Link
19/03/2020 Ceylon Today Free ride on the COVID-19: LG level campaigning for GE ongoing -
CMEV Link
19/03/2020 The Island Some politicians campaigning disregarding assurances not to do so Link
20/03/2020 Daily News EC stands to hold elections - Elections Commissioner General Link
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08/04/2020 Daily Mirror Lanka Sathosa says spices with lotus flower packing will not be taken
off shelves Link
08/04/2020 ColomboXNews සද ාස දබෙන කුළුබඩු පැකට්වල දපාදහාට්ුව ගහලා – මැතිවරණ දකාමිසමට
පැමිණිල්ලක්බ. Link
08/04/2020 TrueNews සද ාස දබෙන කුළුබඩු පැකට්වල දපාදහාට්ුව ගහලා – මැතිවරණ දකාමිසමට
පැමිණිල්ලක්බ. Link
08/04/2020 Lanka Team ජරපත්ව දේශපාලනදේ කණදකාක්බ සුෙ - විමල් විරවංශ Link
08/04/2020 FactCrescendo ඇඳිරි නීති සමදේ කුළු බඩු දබො දීදේදී දපාදහාට්ුදේ ලාංඡනෙ සහි ඇසුරුමක්බ
දොොගත්වදත්වෙ? Link
10/04/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio විධාෙකෙ සහ මැතිවරණ දකාමිසම අ ර ගැුේ එපා – CMEV Link
10/04/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio Executive must work cooperatively Link
10/04/2020 Info Sri Lanka News විධාෙකෙ සහ මැතිවරණ දකාමිසම අ ර ගැුේ එපා – CMEV Link
10/04/2020 NewsHub විධාෙකෙ සහ මැතිවරණ දකාමිසම අ ර ගැුේ එපා – CMEV Link
10/04/2020 Ravaya සහනාධාර දලාක්බඩවුන් දනාදකාට මැතිවරණ පැවැත්වීම ප්රජා න්ත්ව්රවාෙෙට අහි කරෙ
Link
13/04/2020 TV One TV One News (Eleciton Observers Join Statement) Link
13/04/2020 TNLRN News Radio ඡන්ෙ තිෙන්න කින් ජන ජීවි ෙ ෙථාවත්ව විෙ යුුයි – නිරීක්බෂණ සංවිධාන Link
13/04/2020 Lanka Web ේ්ෙවසේථාමෙ අේුෙෙක්බ කැඳවා දනාගනිමු Link
13/04/2020 Samabima නිසි කලට මැතිවරණ පැවැත්වීදමන් “පමණක්බ” ප්රජා න්ත්ව්රවාෙෙ රැදකයිෙ? Link
13/04/2020 Ada මැතිවරණෙ ගැන නිරීක්බෂණ සංවිධානෙ වින් ඒකාබේධ ප්රකාශෙක්බ Link
13/04/2020 Shakthi TV Shakthi TV News (Eleciton Observers Join Statement) Link
13/04/2020 Sirasa TV News First Sirasa News First Sinhala (Eleciton Observers Join Statement) Link
13/04/2020 Anidda දේ දමාදහාදත්ව ඡන්ෙෙක්බ එපා සිෙලූ මැතිවරණ නිරීක්බෂකදෙෝ කිෙති Link
14/04/2020 Lanka News Web දගෝලීෙ ේ්ෙසනෙක්බ හමුදේ ේ්ෙවසේථාමෙ අේුෙෙක්බ ඇති දනාීමට නේ Link
14/04/2020 Lanka News Web To prevent the Constitutional Crisis amid a Pandemic.. Link
15/04/2020 The Island NGOs pressure govt. to resolve polls issue urgently Link
15/04/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio දකාදරෝනා මැෙ ඡන්ෙ තිො හානිෙක්බ වුදනාත්ව වගකීම දේශපාලඥයින් භාරග යුුයි
Link
18/04/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio CMEV condemns politicization of relief aid Link
19/04/2020 Lankadeepa දකාදරෝනා දලාවපුරා මැතිවරණ 30 ක්බ කල් ෙමයි Link
22/04/2020 Ceylon Today CMEV urges revision of election campaigning rules Link
22/04/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio Not an apt environment for an election-CMEV Link
22/04/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio දිනෙක්බ නිෙම වුනත්ව ඡන්ෙෙකට සුදුසු වටපිටාවක්බ රදට් නෑ – CMEV Link
23/04/2020 Ceylon Today Polls monitor tells EC/authorities: Create level playing field for
campaigning candidates Link
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02/05/2020 V FM News මැතිවරණ දකාමිසම සහ පක්බෂ නිදෙෝජි ෙන් අ ර අෙ විදශේෂ සාකච්ඡාවක්බ Link
03/05/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio මහ ඡන්ෙෙ ජූනි 20 බැරිනේ දින 14 කට පසු දවනත්ව දිනෙක? Link
03/05/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio EC can amend election date if needed -CMEV Link
05/05/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio ජනපතිවරණ නීති කැඩීේ ගැන මැතිවරණ දකාමිසම නිහඩයි – CMEV Link
05/05/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio EC yet to respond to 2019 election complaints Link
08/05/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio මැතිවරණ නිරීක්බෂණ කටයුු කිරීදේ අපහසු ාවෙක්බ Link
08/05/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio Election unlikely on 20th June – CMEV Link
12/05/2020 Ceylon Today CMEV to make queries on progress Link
14/05/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio ඡන්ෙ ොෙකෙන්දේ දසෞඛ්ොරක්බෂාව ගැන දකාමිසම සහ නිරීක්බෂකෙන් අ ර සාකච්ඡා
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14/05/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio CMEV to help ensure safe environment for voters Link
15/05/2020 Sirasa TV News First 15.05.2020 Sirasa News(Sinhala) Link
15/05/2020 Sirasa TV News First 15.05.2020 Sirasa News(English) Link
15/05/2020 News First Auditor General Launches Investigation into Rs. 5,000 allowance Link
16/05/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio මහ මැතිවරණ දසෞඛ්ෙ මාේදගෝපදේශ ගැන දකාමිසම හා නිරීක්බෂණ සංවිධාන පුළුල් සාකච්ඡාවක
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16/05/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio NEC & election monitors discuss safe election conduct Link
18/05/2020 The Island CMEV: LG heads on leave to contest general election still holding their
posts Link
19/05/2020 Anidda දල්කේ පත්වකිරීේ නීති විදරෝධීයි Link
20/05/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio අඩු විෙෙේ ප්රචාරණ උපක්බ්රම දකදරහි අදපක්බෂකෙන් අවධානෙ දොමු කළ
යුුයි – CMEV Link
20/05/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio Consider low budget campaign methods-CMEV Link
21/05/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio දකාදරෝනා “0” දවනකන් හිටිදොත්ව ඡන්ෙෙ තිෙන්න දවන්දන් වසරක්බ – දෙකක්බ ගිොට පසේදසේ
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21/05/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio Manage election matters based on health advice Link
23/05/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio 5000 ගැන ඇමති බන්දුල කළ ප්රකාශෙ හරසුන් එකක්බ Link
23/05/2020 TNLRN NewsRadio Bandula’s statement on Rs.5,000 meaningless Link
23/05/2020 Aljazeera Sri Lanka stares at constitutional crisis as polls delayed Link
23/05/2020 East Auto News Sri Lanka stares at constitutional crisis as polls delayed Link
23/05/2020 Post of Asia Sri Lanka stares at constitutional crisis as polls delayed Link
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