{"id":47141,"date":"2015-08-19T14:36:28","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T21:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=47141"},"modified":"2015-08-19T14:36:28","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T21:36:28","slug":"anfrel-urges-for-controls-transparency-on-sri-lankas-polls-funding-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/08\/19\/anfrel-urges-for-controls-transparency-on-sri-lankas-polls-funding-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"ANFREL urges for controls, transparency on Sri Lanka\u2019s polls funding resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The existing election laws in Sri Lanka favours candidates with huge financial resources, says the Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL) which deployed a team of election observers from countries across Asia to observe the August 17 Parliamentary Elections in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>The monitoring mission added that, as mentioned by the People\u2019s Action for Free and Fair Elections (PAFFREL), campaign finance is one of the means of leveling the playing field.<\/p>\n<p>ANFREL added that when it interviewed several top executives in Sri Lanka\u2019s finance industry, one had pointed out that according to his observations during the run-up to the 17 August General Elections in Sri Lanka, in less than 30 minutes Rs. 150 million was spent by less than 10 candidates on their political advertisements.<\/p>\n<p>A Member of Parliament receives some Rs. 89,000 a month. If this is multiplied by 60 \u2013 the months for the five-year term, then he receives Rs. 5.3 million for his five-year period. Hence, a Parliamentarian running for office will spend millions of rupees in canvassing and propaganda campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>Hence, there should be a limit on these expenditures and a definition on the lawful contributions to a particular party or candidate and also accurate reporting and auditing of the expenditure by a candidate or party as well as a listing or reporting of their donations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy adaderana The existing election laws in Sri Lanka favours candidates with huge financial resources, says the Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL) which deployed a team of election observers from countries across Asia to observe the August 17 Parliamentary Elections in Sri Lanka. The monitoring mission added that, as mentioned by the People\u2019s Action [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}