Colombo: Election observers from the European Union called on Sri Lankan Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena ahead of the deployment of 26 observers to follow the campaign for the country’s election on September 21. The Prime Minister reiterated its commitment to ‘free and fair elections,’ a government press release stated.
The EU Election Observer Team, led by Jose Ignacio Sanchez Amor, will monitor the forthcoming presidential election in the island nation. This is the seventh time that the EU has sent an election monitoring team to Sri Lanka, the last being in 2019.
