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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
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
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 ...
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 ...
Mahinda Rajapaksa: economic growth
(factchecklka - Facebook, 12/10/2018)
FALSE: In the nine years I was in power, I increased the GDP per capita of this country by a multiple of three. In that period, the economic growth rate was 7.4%.
- Mahinda Rajapaksa, 25 November 2018, Derana TV
Mahinda Rajapaksa: Women in universities
(www.factcheck.lk, 12/20/2019)
TRUE: Today, the percentage of women studying in universities exceeds 50 percent.
- Mahinda Rajapaksa, Divaina, 2 October 2019
Mahinda Rajapaksa: Debt-to-GDP
(www.factcheck.lk, 2024-02-01)
PARTLY TRUE: My government reduced the debt-to-GDP ratio from 90% at the end of 2005 to 69% at the end of 2014.
Mahinda Rajapaksa, NewsFirst.lk, 8 December 2023