"What this country now needs is neither budget support nor balance of payments support," opposition legislator Harsha de Silva said.
"What this country need is life support.
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De Silva alleged that the "economic lifeblood of the people of Sri Lanka is being sucked dry" with "front-loaded and unviable projects to the Chinese" and workers' savings were being used to manipulate stocks for the benefit of a 'stock market mafia'.
De Silva said his party had pointed out that it was unlikely that the IMF would have given a budget support loan to Sri Lanka.
"[I]t seems inevitable that the government has no choice but to go back to high cost and almost choking commercial borrowing and Chinese loans however, with extremely lucrative commissions for the arrangers all of which will have to paid by the 99 percent of the hard working people of this country," De Silva alleged.
Sri Lanka had said that it will not sell a sovereign bond this year in capital markets, but a state bank is expected to