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Bandula Gunawardane: Total Exports
(www.factcheck.lk, 2/3/2022)
PARTLY TRUE: Sri Lanka increased exports by 23% amidst challenging environment faced both locally and globally. Total exports are USD 12.3 billion in 2020 and USD15.12 billion in 2021. - Bandula Gunawardane, Official ...
Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Foreign Loans
(www.factcheck.lk, 1/27/2022)
FALSE: I have not taken a cent in foreign loans during my two years in office. - Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Newswire, 7 January 2022,
Gotabaya Rajapaksa: International Sovereign Bonds
(www.factcheck.lk , 6/26/2022)
PARTLY TRUE: Every month we have to repay the loans that previous governments had obtained for various reasons. On ISBs, by 2015, we had only taken out USD 5 billion worth of them. During the time of the previous government, ...
Dayasiri Jayasekara: Industrial GDP
(www.factcheck.lk , 3/31/2022)
FALSE: Industrial sector is in a huge crisis at present, every government after 77’ is responsible for this.... The industrial sector which was at all times 54%, reduced to 27%. – Dayasiri Jayasekara, Ada Derana, 04 February 2022.
Janaka Ratnayake: Fuel price reductions
(www.factcheck.lk, 8/4/2022)
True: The price of petrol was reduced by 20 rupees last night. I had pointed out two weeks ago that the price of a litre of petrol… can be reduced by 150 rupees. – Janaka Ratnayake, PUCSL Press Release, 18 July 2022
Ajith Nivard Cabraal: All Party Convention statement
(www.factcheck.lk, 4/28/2022)
FALSE: During 2015-2019, Sri Lanka’s economic growth had collapsed gradually from 7% to 2%. Although foreign debt increased by USD 15 billion, foreign reserves had reduced by USD 1 billion. – Ajith Nivard Cabraal, News19.lk, ...
Pavithradevi Wanniarachchi: CEB profits and electricity access
(www.factcheck.lk , 5/19/2022)
PARTLY TRUE: In 2014… we did so much work and reduced the electricity bill by 25 percent. – Pavithradevi Wanniarachchi, DailyNews, 14 March 2022.
Eran Wickramaratne: Reserves
(www.factcheck.lk, 2/24/2022)
TRUE: Compared to 2019 and 2021, the decrease in foreign reserves is 80% in Sri Lanka. But other countries in the [South Asian] region have seen an escalation of their reserves. - Eran Wickramaratne, Daily FT, 25 January 2022
Dullas Alahapperuma: IMF
(www.factcheck.lk , 2/17/2022)
TRUE: It was in 1950 that we entered into an agreement with the IMF to obtain its membership. As a member country, from 1960 until now, we have carried out certain transactions with the IMF on 16 occasions. I recall that ...
Nihal Thalduwa: Criticism of the President
(www.factcheck.lk, 1/5/2022)
FALSE: It is prohibited to publish and exchange statements that insult the president on social media or any other media. The police is vested with the authority to take legal action against those who do so. – SSP Nihal ...