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    • Ali Sabry: IGP removal 

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      (www.factcheck.lk, 9/10/2020)
      FALSE: The then IGP may not have been at fault for the Easter attack. However, if the president wants to remove him, he cannot do so under this constitution. - Ali Sabry, Lankadeepa, 16 August 2020
    • G.L. Peiris: Presidential Immunity under 19A 

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      (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
    • GL Peiris: 19A Dissolution 

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      (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 ...
    • National Freedom Front: Auditor General's duties under 20A 

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      (www.factcheck.lk, 10/22/2020)
      TRUE: The provision under which companies registered under the Registrar of Companies and of which the government is the majority shareholder, have been removed from the audit process of the Auditor General [in the proposed ...
    • Udaya Gammanpila: Powers of Executive Presidency 

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      (www.factcheck.lk, 9/29/2019)
      FALSE: …there has been no major change from the Presidency before the 19th Amendment to the current office of the president. Only three powers of the presidency were removed by the 19th Amendment. - Udaya Gammanpila, ...
    • Udaya Gammanpila: Presidential Immunity 

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      (www.factcheck.lk, 5/13/2020)
      FALSE: “…Even if [former President Sirisena] has committed a crime, he cannot be prosecuted as he enjoys immunity in terms of Article 35(1) of the Constitution… No law has stripped Presidential immunity against criminal ...