Speaker Says President Rajapaksa Has Not Left Sri Lanka, Parliament To Elect New Premier Next Week

Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa stays within the nation, based on Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena’s workplace, refuting media rumours that the beleaguered chief, whose whereabouts are unknown, could have departed the nation, information company PTI reported.

Rajapaksa, 73, has but to publicly retire, and his whereabouts are unknown.

Nonetheless, the presidential secretariat has continued to problem the President’s assertion even after he deserted the official residence on Saturday when lots of of demonstrators attacked it.

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1. Based on Abeywardena’s workplace, he had not departed the nation as had been steered within the media. “This was (speculated) after a mistake made by Speaker of Parliament Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena who had stated he had left the nation however could be again by Wednesday to supply his resignation. Abeywardena later corrected the error,” his workplace was quoted by PTI in its report. 
2. On Saturday, Rajapaksa informed the Speaker that he’ll stop on July 13.
3. Based on the Speaker’s workplace, the Parliament has taken all needed measures to elect a successor in accordance with the protocol.
4. Based on experiences, Rajapaksa is claimed to be spending time at a Sri Lanka Naval station.
5. Sri Lanka, a rustic of twenty-two million individuals, is experiencing unparalleled financial disaster, the worst in seven many years, with tens of millions unable to buy meals, medicine, gasoline, and different requirements.
6. Tens of hundreds of individuals have gone to the streets in current months to demand that the nation’s leaders stop over allegations of financial mismanagement. They attribute the state of affairs to the Rajapaksa household.
7. Faculties have been closed, and gasoline has been restricted to essential companies solely. Sufferers are unable to drive to hospitals owing to a scarcity of gasoline, and meals prices are skyrocketing.
8. A whole lot of persons are pressured to face in line for hours to purchase petrol in lots of main cities, together with Colombo, sometimes combating with police and the army.
9. With an excessive overseas foreign money disaster leading to overseas debt default, the nation said in April that it’s suspending roughly USD 7 billion in overseas debt funds due this 12 months, out of round USD 25 billion due till 2026.
10. All the overseas debt of Sri Lanka is USD 51 billion.