Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will resign next week, announced the Speaker of Parliament, Mahinda Abhiwardana, today.
Rajapaksa fled earlier today from his official residence in Colombo minutes before thousands of protesters stormed it in one of the biggest anti-government demonstrations in the country in recent months.
"To ensure a peaceful transition, the president said he was going to resign on July 13," Abiwardhana told television."
Sri Lanka is suffering from the worst economic crisis in its history. It is facing a huge shortage of foreign exchange, preventing it from importing sufficient quantities of food, fuel, medicine and other essentials.
Source: Proto Thema
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