Desperately wanted to give NPP and AKD the benefit of the doubt but...public sector expansion!
https://www.newswire.lk/2025/01/26/30000-state-sector-vacancies-salary-increase-president-speaks/
Sri Lanka has a huge public sector. The IMF even advisors to the president have said they need to cut the public sector.
It seems we are repeating the mistakes of the past.