Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe announces his resignation
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe has announced that he is stepping down on the recommendation of the country’s parliament. About this politician informed on your Twitter page.
Wickramasinghe said he made the decision to leave his post to ensure the continuation of the all-party government, as well as the safety of the citizens of Sri Lanka.
Earlier, Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe called an emergency meeting of Parliament. As part of the meeting, party leaders decided to dismiss President Gotabay Rajapaksa. Speaker of Parliament Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena became the new head of Sri Lanka.
In addition, information appeared today that the former leader of the Rajapaksa state could leave the country. According to the secretary of the ex-president Gamini Senarat, at the moment his whereabouts are unknown.
On July 9, political activists, outraged by the economic crisis in Sri Lanka, organized a march against the government in the capital, Colombo. Thousands of people took to the streets of the capital. As a result, the protesters managed to break into the residence of Rajapaksa.
An expert on the problems of the Asia-Pacific region, Vladimir Terekhov, in a conversation with Lenta.ru, expressed the opinion that with the election of a new president, another “savior of the fatherland” may appear in Sri Lanka for a short time. However, according to him, the protests can disappear only for a while.
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