Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa Resigns Sends Resignation Letter To Speaker Sri Lanka Parliament

Gotabaya Rajapaksa resigned as Sri Lankan President on Thursday after touchdown in Singapore from Maldives after he fled the island nation amid large protests towards his authorities’s mishandling of the financial system. “The Speaker of Sri Lanka’s Parliament has acquired President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s resignation letter,” Sri Lankan Speaker’s workplace mentioned.

Rajapaksa landed in Singapore from the Maldives after he fled Sri Lanka on Tuesday after hundreds of protesters stormed his official residence, blaming him for the unprecedented financial disaster. Rajapaksa, who enjoys immunity from prosecution whereas he’s president, fled the island nation with out resigning to keep away from the opportunity of arrest by the brand new authorities.

Nonetheless, Singapore’s Overseas Ministry mentioned Rajapaksa was allowed entry into Singapore on a personal go to. “Rajapaksa has been allowed entry into Singapore on a personal go to. He has not requested for asylum and neither has he been granted any asylum. Singapore typically doesn’t grant requests for asylum,” a press release mentioned.

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Rajapaksa (73), who had agreed to give up on Wednesday, designated Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as performing President hours after fleeing the nation. On Thursday, Wickremesinghe requested the Speaker to appoint a Prime Minister who was acceptable to each the federal government and Opposition.

The President’s resignation comes on a day the protesters introduced they’d finish their occupation of official buildings, together with the presidential palace, presidential secretariat and the Prime Minister’s workplace.

“We’re peacefully withdrawing from all buildings besides the previous parliament (president’s workplace) and Galle Face (the continual protest web site). We are going to proceed to stay in these locations, we’ll proceed to protest till we attain our objectives,” PTI quoted a spokesperson for the group as saying.

In the meantime, the Sri Lankan Military in a press release urged the protesters to desist from violence instantly or be ready to face the “penalties”, warning that the safety forces had been “legitimately empowered” to train power.

One particular person died and at the least 84 folks had been hospitalised when protesters clashed with the safety forces on the PM’s workplace and close to  Parliament on Wednesday. The police fired tear fuel and water cannons on the mob who had been making an attempt to interrupt obstacles and enter the restricted zone.