Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL) began monitoring Sri Lanka Presidential election, reports Daily News on November 9. Before deployment to various parts of the island, the long term observers (LTOs) of ANFREL's International Election Observation Mission (IEOM) for the 2019 Sri Presidential Election participated in a one-day pre-deployment briefing on October 31, 2019 in Colombo. The observation team comprising 41 people from 16 countries plans to monitor the Presidential election covering all Districts of the country. European Union and Commonwealth observers have also been deployed in the island.