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Mahinda Rajapaksa: Office on Missing Persons Act
(www.factcheck.lk, 9/3/2020)
FALSE: “In August of 2016, without even allowing for a parliamentary debate on the matter, the Yahapalana government forcibly enacted the Office on Missing Persons Act.”
-Mahinda Rajapaksa, Aruna, 29 June 2020
Budget Check 2021
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/17/2020)
For the very first time in Sri Lanka, the FactCheck team at Verité Research conducted the inaugural #BudgetCheck2021. The team carried out live fact checking on claims made by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa in his 2021 ...
G.L. Peiris: Presidential Immunity under 19A
(www.factcheck.lk, 9/16/2020)
FALSE: As long as 19A is in force, the president has to waste his time in courts…That is why immunity is needed…
- G.L. Peiris, Aruna, 8 September 2020
Ranil Wickremesinghe: Government Revenue
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/6/2020)
FALSE: "When I was the Prime Minister, the government revenue was LKR 150,000 million. The revenue last month was LKR 50,000 million. LKR 90,000 million is needed to pay the salaries and pensions of the public servants." ...
Kanchana Wijesekera: Forensic Audit Report
(www.factcheck.lk, 3/5/2020)
FALSE: "Around 96 percent of the Rs.10,000 million ‘loss’ highlighted by the Forensic Audit Report into Bond transactions from the period 2005-2015 actually went to several government institutions which benefitted immensely. ...
Mujibur Rahman: COVID-19 foreign financing
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/11/2020)
PARTLY TRUE: We know that our country has received a large amount of money from abroad to control [the COVID-19 pandemic] ... In general, when everything is added up, [Sri Lanka] has received about LKR 200,000 million.
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Mahinda Rajapakse: Budget Deficit
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/19/2020)
FALSE: “…the budget deficit which my government brought down to 5.7 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2014, has increased to over 9.6 percent of the GDP by 2019… outstanding unpaid bills amounted to Rs. 243 billion, ...
Harsha de Silva: Loan Collateral
(www.factcheck.lk, 8/20/2020)
Also, for the first time in Sri Lanka’s history, when Sri Lanka, as a sovereign state, asked the international community for a loan, they asked for collateral. This is because the international community has identified ...
Patali Champika Ranawaka: Mihin and Sri Lankan Airlines debt
(www.factcheck.lk, 2/6/2020)
FALSE: Through SriLankan Airlines and Mihin Lanka, every person in the country has been made a debtor to the value of LKR 12,500.
- Patali Champika Ranawaka, Divaina, 28 August 2019
GL Peiris: 19A Dissolution
(www.factcheck.lk, 9/16/2020)
TRUE: Before the 19th Amendment, when a new president was elected, he had the power to dissolve parliament and to call for an election to elect a parliament that would be in alignment with his policies… [After the 19th ...