Sri Lanka declares state of emergency after President Rajapaksa flees

Sri Lanka, immersed in a serious economic and political crisis, declared a state of emergency this Wednesday after the flight of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the prime minister’s office announced.

“The president left the country, a state of emergency is declared to deal with the situation in the country“, the prime minister’s spokesman, Dinouk Colombage, told ‘AFP’.

Rajapaksa, the ‘war hero’ kicked out of his official residence on Saturday for a social revolt, He offered his departure from office forced by the rejection and months of protests between the worst economic crisis in its history.

The Air Force confirmed the departure of President Rajapaksa bound for the paradisiacal Maldives archipelago, ending four days of uncertainty about the whereabouts of the leader who became known as the ‘terminator’, for his role in the civil war against the Tigers Tamils.

Without a message to the nation or a route to follow after leaving, the island nation must resolve today an immediate path to the institutional crisis and immediately go on to attend to the economic crisis, almost without reserves, heavily indebted, and submerged in deep scarcity. of basic products.

AFP and EFE