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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
Mavai Senathirajah: Lands released in the North
(www.factcheck.lk, 9/11/2019)
TRUE: 75% of the lands occupied by the security forces in the Northern Province have been released to the public.
- Mavai Senathirajah, Dinamina, 16 August 2019