Bandula Gunawardana

United People's Freedom Party

This government passed an act to obtain annual loans from foreigners without limitations. This act was passed by misleadingly naming it the Active Liability Management Act. According to this, they can obtain any amount in loans outside the budget.

Namal Rajapaksa

United People's Freedom Alliance

Today 560,000 sit the Ordinary Level examination. 340,000 sit the Advanced Level examination. Around 65,000-100,000 pass the examination. Approximately 28,000 go to university.

Sajith Premadasa

United National Party

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

Ashok Abeysinghe

United National Party

As of now, the number of passengers travelling by train is about 400,000… In [bus] passenger transport, the private sector does about 75%, and SLTB buses do 25%.

Udaya Gammanpila

United People's Freedom Alliance

In comparison to the 5 to 9 age group, the Sinhala population in the 0 to 4 age group has increased by 0.5%. But the Muslim population has increased by 1.4%, or threefold… When considering the trends in the child population, the Muslim population will exceed 12% in the next 10 years… As per the 2012 population census, it is official that the Sinhala race is now going extinct.

Eran Wickramaratne

United National Party

Total borrowings by the Government have been completely used to repay debt.

Udaya Gammanpila

United People's Freedom Alliance

…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.

Maithripala Sirisena

President of Sri Lanka

The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) and Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) incur losses in the tens of millions [of rupees] per day.

Vijitha Herath

Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna

According to the 2018 Central Bank Annual Report, when the total income was Rs. 1,920 billion, interest payments that year were Rs. 2,088 billion. There was a deficit of Rs. 168 billion.