I stand by the voting process - EC
Sri Lanka’s authority on elections says that he is totally satisfied with the electoral process in the presidential election where Mahinda Rajapaksa was declared the winner.
Speaking to journalists in Colombo on Wednesday Election Commissioner (EC) Dayananda Dissanayaka said, “I am totally satisfied with the voting and counting. The EC made this declaration whereas the opposition has rejected the result as fraudulent. Defeated presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka made representations to the EC on Wednesdaywith what he says is proof of vote rigging. Election Commissioner told journalists that investigations will be made. Meanwhile, election monitors say that the election commissioner has a duty to prove the validity of the declared result. 'No faith' Campain for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) Director Rajith Keerthi Tennakoon told BBC Sandeshaya that 90% of the people have no faith in the result. He said that a copy of the final tally from every counting station should be made available to the public. “It is a public document,” said Director Tennakoon alleging that the EC has not honoured several requests made by CaFFE to obtain them. “Agents of the opposition were chased away from several counting stations making the document inaccessible to the opposition” added the CaFFE director..