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Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe: IMF
(www.factcheck.lk , 6/16/2022)
TRUE: An Extended Fund Facility (EFF) - which allows longer repayment periods - may be best suited to the country, it typically requires deeper structural reforms. Nandalal Weerasinghe, Daily News, 19 April 2022.
Ajith Nivard Cabraal: Vehicle Imports
(www.factcheck.lk, 5/20/2021)
TRUE: The number of vehicles imported to Sri Lanka from 2015 to 2019 was 2,515,546. And the amount spent on these vehicles imported amounts to Rs. 1,239 billion. - Ajith Nivard Cabraal, Daily News, 6 June 2021
Anura Priyadharshana Yapa: Forest Cover
(www.factcheck.lk, 2/5/2021)
TRUE: Sri Lanka's forest cover is only 29.2 percent.
- Anura Priyadharshana Yapa, Lankadeepa, 9 December 2020
Anura Kumara Dissanayake: Rajapaksa budget
(www.factcheck.lk, 12/2/2021)
FALSE: There are 4 Rajapaksas who represent the cabinet. There is also a state minister as well. How much of funds have been allocated to that family—to the ministries they represent? The total expenditure is 5,200 billion ...
Harini Amarasuriya: Female Labor Force Participation
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/22/2020)
TRUE: ..according to the 2009 [sic, 2019] Annual Report from the Central Bank, the female labour force participation rate of Sri Lanka was 34.5%. It was 73% for men... We have one of the lowest female labour force participation ...
Mahindananda Aluthgamage: Credit cards and tax files
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/25/2021)
BLATANTLY FALSE: There are nearly 1,000 tax files in our country. There are over 10 million credit cards in our country. Each credit card holder does transactions of nearly Rs. 1 million to 1.5 million. - Mahindananda ...
Bandula Gunawardana: Debt
(www.factcheck.lk, 1/20/2022)
FALSE: The debt stood at 2 trillion when Mahinda Rajapaksa took over the country. It stood at 7 trillion at the time he handed over the country. The debt only rose by 5 trillion in [those] 10 years. [But] The debt stood ...
Ajith Nivard Cabraal: Foreign Reserves
(www.factcheck.lk, 1/28/2021)
TRUE: We had USD 8.2 billion in reserves… When the good governance government handed us the government, there was only USD 7.6 billion in reserves.
- Ajith Nivard Cabraal, Mawbima, 7 January 2021
Sudath Samaraweera: Community transmission
(www.factcheck.lk, 12/11/2020)
FALSE: “If positive cases are reported without the origin, then it can be identified as a community transmission. In other words, community transmission takes place when cases are reported with no connection to the existing ...
Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Child disability statistics
(www.factcheck.lk, 2/27/2020)
FALSE: In Sri Lanka, 20 percent of children are having a mental or physical disability.
- Gotabaya Rajapaksa, President's Official Twitter Page, 25 January 2020