Sri Lanka cannot service its current fuel import bill. How can it find more dollars to import for increasing number of vehicles ? and more spare parts . Shooting oneself in the foot here.
This is the reason . Trust is there now . Earlier nobody wanted to risk their hard earned money . Now people know that system works and trustworthy and get a better rate as well. No reason to go back .
A policy error by this dear government . Do you agree ?
Also restricting imports does not...
Tthey saw this before hand and tried to do much as they could . Raised interest rates , raised taxes, fuel price formula to control the outflow. All this is done having a weaker government , that's what you called having a spine.
But our people could not see it and took it as a weakness. Now...