07/17/2011
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The Sunday Leader
The local government elections in Jaffna are being taken very seriously by the ruling People’s Alliance (UPFA) and the Tamil National Alliance (TNA).
The main opposition party, the United National Party (UNP) has a low key presence and on the surface is not pursuing these elections with much gusto. The government efforts are spearheaded by Minister of Economic Development, Basil Rajapaksa and the TNA by Suresh Premachandran.
07/13/2011
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BBC
UPFA and EPDP are accused of intimidating TNA supporters and breaking election laws in the run up to next week's polls.
02/23/2011
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ReliefWeb
Mr. Thibagar was displaced from his hometown of Mirissuvul, located on the Jaffna peninsula, a region of Sri Lanka devastated by more than 25 years of civil war. As a result of his displacement, he never knew how to register to vote. As a beneficiary of USAID's voter registration awareness program implemented by the Home for Human Rights (HHR), he realized the importance of voting and decided to register.
09/11/2010
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ColomboPage
Sept 11, Colombo: Six organizers of Sri Lanka's crisis ridden main opposition United National Party (UNP) in the Galle District have called the party to give the organizers power to vote in the event a poll is held to elect the senior leaders.
09/05/2010
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Sunday Leader
Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the North remain unregistered to vote, despite it being over three months since voter registration began, claims Director of Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE), Keerthi Tennakoon.
07/11/2010
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Sunday Times
Voting rights of thousands in Kilinochchi and Jaffna districts are at stake due to the lack of manpower in updating the voters’ registers and lack of coordination between Government departments, officials said. Since the commencement of the revision of electoral registers on June 1 throughout the country, the task of registering more than 65,000 resettled internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Kilinochchi has been entrusted to Grama Niladharis with little progress being made, they said.
01/27/2010
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New York Times
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka’s president, was re-elected by a wide margin, election officials here said Wednesday, defeating the newly retired army general who had tried to lay claim to Mr. Rajapaksa’s biggest political victory, the defeat of the Tamil Tiger insurgency.
01/27/2010
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BBC
President Mahinda Rajapaksa has won Sri Lanka's first election since Tamil Tiger rebels were defeated after 25 years of civil war, state TV reports.
01/26/2010
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New York Times, The Lede blog
Millions of Sri Lankans cast votes on Tuesday in a presidential election, but the leading opposition candidate, a retired general who crushed a separatist movement last year, was not one of them.