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Top Sri Lanka court clears way to strip former leaders of perks
The Daily Guardian
|September 10, 2025
Sri Lanka's Supreme Court cleared the final legal hurdle on Tuesday to evict former presidents from their stately mansions and strip them of their luxury cars, bodyguards and pensions.
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's leftist government has tabled a bill that would repeal a 1986 law granting lavish state housing and other entitlements to former presidents and their widows.
The bill is part of Dissanayake's effort to impose more official austerity after the country's worst-ever economic crisis.
This story is from the September 10, 2025 edition of The Daily Guardian.
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