Despite protests from Roman Catholic leaders, Pope Francis has remained committed to his planned three-day trip to Sri Lanka on Jan. 13. The visit takes place five days after the country’s election, and some fear the results could end in violence.

A stock of false and misleading ballot papers have been recovered from Trincomalee.

The Elections Commissioner has made a formal warning to several state media institutions warning to remove them from activities of the Presidential election official results coverage if they do not stop broadcasting politically biased programmes.

Common candidate Maithripala Sirisena's final campaigning rally was held at Central Colombo last evening (05) and among those who were present at the event was Iranganie de Silva, the wife of minister Nimal Siripala de Silva.

Stones have been hurled at the house of North Provincial Councilor Ananthi Sasitharan, the Campaign for Free & Fair Election (CaFFE) reports.