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Patali Champika Ranawaka: Mihin and Sri Lankan Airlines debt
(www.factcheck.lk, 2/6/2020)
FALSE: Through SriLankan Airlines and Mihin Lanka, every person in the country has been made a debtor to the value of LKR 12,500.
- Patali Champika Ranawaka, Divaina, 28 August 2019
GL Peiris: 19A Dissolution
(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 ...
Patali Champika Ranawaka: Loans from Japan
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/8/2020)
TRUE: As a country, Japan has given the most in loans at low interest rates.
- Patali Champika Ranawaka, Aruna, 16 June 2020
Keheliya Rambukwella: GDP growth
(www.factcheck.lk, 1/15/2020)
TRUE: When President Mahinda Rajapaksa took over the country in 2005, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was USD 20 billion. In ten years, we increased the GDP to USD 80 billion.
- Keheliya Rambukwella, Dinamina, 4 December 2019
Sajith Premadasa: Fuel price reduction
(www.factcheck.lk, 5/6/2020)
PARTLY TRUE: The price of a litre of 95 octane petrol is Rs. 161 and this can be priced at Rs. 94. A litre of super diesel is sold at Rs. 132 and this price can be reduced to Rs. 77. A litre of diesel is sold at Rs. 104 ...
Pavithradevi Wanniarachchi: Covid-19 community transmission
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/4/2020)
TRUE: …No [COVID-19] patients were reported from the community in the period of close to three weeks that elapsed, because the disease did not spread amongst the community.
- Pavithradevi Wanniarachchi, Ada Derana, 20 May 2020