The Hon. Ravi Karunanayake

New Democratic Front· National List· 27 November 2025 ·Oral question: Oral Question: Total Foreign and Domestic Debt with Supplementaries (Q.315/2024 (2))

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Ravi Karunanayake challenged the Government on the debt standstill and default, arguing that Parliament had not approved the decision to declare default. He linked the issue to the Central Bank’s independence and questioned how the Government could now cite the default as a reason it cannot borrow.

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¶ 01 If you had answered the Standing Order 27(2) question, you would state when Parliament approved the debt standstill. This is a consequence of the Central Bank’s “independence”. Now you answer that you cannot borrow because of default declared without Parliament’s approval.

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Source: Hansard, Thursday, 27 November 2025 ·No. 23013 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Ravi Karunanayake. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 27 November 2025. No. 23013. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/5271