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Infographic: Did your MPs go to Parliament in July?

The infographic below compiled and analysed by manthri.lk shows the attendance of MPs in the Sri Lanka Parliament for the May-July 2017 quarter.

This publicly-available data follows a unanimous decision by MPs for parliament to release the attendance records from May 2017. The total number of sessions during this 3-month period was 21. The infographic shows 18 MPs (numbers 1 to 18) attended less than 25 per cent of the sessions; 43 MPs attended 25 to 50 per cent of the sessions; 74 MPs attended 51-76 per cent of the sessions and 90 MPs attended 76 to 100 per cent.

The last category (90 MPs) includes 18 MPs (numbers 18 to 32) who had 100 per cent attendance with Speaker Karu Jayasuriya in this category.

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