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Mahinda Rajapaksa: Electricity access
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/16/2020)
TRUE: We provided electricity to 99.9% of the country.
- Mahinda Rajapaksa, Divaina, 24 June 2020
Harshana Rajakaruna: MPs not speaking in Parliament
(www.factcheck.lk, 3/28/2019)
TRUE: As a whole, 95% of MPs have spoken [in parliament in 2018]. It is only 5% who haven't spoken.
- Harshana Rajakaruna, Silumina, 3 March 2019
Wimalaweera Dissanayake: Health sector
(www.factcheck.lk, 9/7/2023)
PARTLY TRUE: Even in the midst of all the shortcomings, it’s Sri Lanka that has the best health service in South Asia.
Wimalaweera Dissanayake, The Life Traveler, 19 July 2023
Kabir Hashim: Poverty line
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/29/2023)
TRUE: “…by 2019…the poverty line[sic] of this country was 11%…it has grown to 25% by 2023. I believe it is more than that. But the World Bank has calculated that it is only 25%, which means that out of 22 million in this ...
Ramesh Pathirana: Fuel prices
(www.factcheck.lk, 9/2/2021)
PARTLY TRUE: When compared with the countries in the South Asian region, the fuel price of our country is still lower than that of the other countries in the region. Among the countries in this region, only Pakistan provides ...
Udaya Gammanpila: Increase in electricity bill
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/22/2023)
PARTLY TRUE: From the very short period between last year's August and this year's March…the [electricity] bill increase [was]…1,138% for the poor man [a consumer who uses 30 units] and 160% for the rich man [a person using ...
Sajith Premadasa: Women in politics
(www.factcheck.lk, 1/24/2020)
TRUE: …[we] have not been able to increase representation [of women] in parliament. Even today, representation of women in our parliament is at a level of 5.8%. Our government was able to increase representation of women ...
Ruwan Wijewardene: Debt increase
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/28/2022)
TRUE: Some people in the present government say that the country has come to this situation because we [yahapalana government] took loans. 80% of the loans we took were used for settling the loans obtained by Mahinda ...
Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Release of military occupied land
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/31/2019)
FALSE: "We are the people who released 90% of the land"
- Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Inaugural Press Conference, 16 October 2019
Eran Wickramaratne: Foreign investment
(www.factcheck.lk, 2/25/2021)
TRUE: There has been a big outflow of foreign investment from the stock exchange. In terms of rupee value, Rs. 51 billion outflows was registered in the year 2020…
- Eran Wickramaratne, Lanka Business Online, 18 January 2021