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Bandula Gunawardana: Active Liability Management Act
(www.factcheck.lk, 9/26/2019)
FALSE: This government passed an act to obtain annual loans from foreigners without limitations. This act was passed by misleadingly naming it the Active Liability Management Act. According to this, they can obtain any ...
Mahinda Rajapaksa: Debt
(factchecklka - Facebook, 3/21/2019)
FALSE: "In the past four years, the UNP-led government has borrowed the equivalent of 50% of the total national debt that was outstanding as at the end of December 2014 from the loans taken in the six decades after gaining ...
Anura Priyadharshana Yapa: mobile phone taxes
(factchecklka - Facebook, 1/9/2019)
PARTLY TRUE: When a mobile phone user in our country pays Rs. 5,000 [as the mobile phone bill], Rs. 1,600 of it goes towards paying taxes.
- ANura Priyadharshana Yapa, 26 October 2018, Divaina
Eran Wickramaratne: All Borrowings Used to Repay Debt
(www.factcheck.lk, 8/22/2019)
PARTLY TRUE: Total borrowings by the Government have been completely used to repay debt.
- Eran Wickramaratne, Daily FT, 19 June 2019
Maithripala Sirisena: absolute poverty
(factchecklka - Facebook, 4/4/2019)
PARTLY TRUE: The absolute poverty ratio of the country has been reported as 6.7%...
- Maithripala Sirisena, 4 February 2019, Independence Day Speech
Sajith Premadasa: Income inequality
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/3/2019)
FALSE: While the richest 20 per cent enjoy 54 per cent of the national income, the poorest 20 per cent of the country enjoys only 4 percent of it.
- Sajith Premadasa, Lankadeepa, 9 July 2019
Ranjith Madduma Bandara: Drowning statistics
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/25/2019)
About 800 deaths due to drowning are reported annually.
Ranjith Madduma Bandara: Crime reduction statistics
(www.factcheck.lk, 12/18/2019)
PARTLY TRUE: During the last four years, the rates of all forms of crime […] declined drastically […] under this government compared to the previous Rajapaksa regime. The murder rate which was 646 in 2012 has decreased to ...
Ashok Abeysinghe: Health budget allocations
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/17/2019)
TRUE: In 2010, LKR 53.1 billion was allocated for free healthcare; in 2015, we allocated LKR 139.5 billion. In 2016, [it was] LKR 174 billion. In 2019, an amount of LKR 194.5 billion were allocated. This means that 10% of ...
Rajitha Senaratne: Cigarette taxes
(factchecklka - Facebook, 3/14/2019)
FALSE: "We have acted appropriately against the use of tobacco and imposed a 90% tax on tobacco in an attempt to reduce tobacco usage."
- Rajitha Senaratne, Daily News, 20 February 2019