IMF DEAL
The eight-week battle was predominated by financial problems, with widespread public outcry over Wickremesinghe’s belt-tightening measures in particular since the island nation’s bruising financial crisis.
A party committee member told AFP that Dissanayaka do” not tear up” the IMF offer but that he would seek to change it.
” It is a binding record, but there is a provision to renegotiate”, said Bimal Ratnayake.
He claimed that Dissanayaka had pledged to lower Wickremesinghe’s doubled income taxes and lower income taxes on food and medications.
” We think we can get those cuts into the program and remain with the four-year loan programme”, he said.
Dissanayaka’s once-marginal Socialist party led two failed rebellion in the 1970s and 1980s that left more than 80, 000 persons useless.
But Sri Lanka’s issue has proven an opportunity for Dissanayaka, whose reputation rocketed on his commitment to change the planet’s” corrupt” social society.