Colombo : As a precautionary measure to prevent any untoward incident after the presidential election, curfew has been imposed in Sri Lanka from 10 pm on Saturday to 6 am on Sunday. Police has given this information. President Ranil Wickremesinghe has implemented the curfew order by issuing a gazette.
The curfew has been announced at a time when the counting of votes is going on. The first results have not been declared yet. According to an official, the voting percentage in the presidential election is estimated to be around 75 percent.
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Elections Director General Saman Sri Ratnayak announced that voter turnout in the presidential election was expected to be 75 per cent, down from the 83 per cent recorded in the last presidential election in November 2019. Voting took place from 7 am to 4 pm local time at over 13,400 polling stations in 22 electoral districts. Over 17 million registered voters were expected to cast their votes in the election, which saw the largest number of 38 candidates in the fray.
This is the first election in Sri Lanka after the economic crisis of 2022. During this, there was no report of violence or security breach from anywhere in all 22 electoral districts. About 8,000 local and foreign election observers were deployed for the presidential election in Sri Lanka. These included 116 international observers from the European Union, Commonwealth countries and the Asian Network for Free Elections and seven from South Asian countries. The leading local group People's Action for Free and Fair Elections deployed 4,000 local observers. This election is being seen as a litmus test for the current President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who has claimed to bring the country's economy back on track.
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