Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Wenesday left Sri Lanka along with his spouse amid widespread protests.
Colombo:
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa who fled to Maldives on Wednesday adopted by an rebellion triggered because of the financial collapse of the island nation, is now ready to journey additional to Singapore.
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, who’s now an appearing president, has declared a state of emergency within the nation and a curfew within the Western province had been imposed.
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has not departed for Singapore on the scheduled Singapore Airways flight from Male to Singapore, the Each day Mirror reported.
Rajapaksa alongside along with his spouse Ioma Rajapaksa and two safety officers had been anticipated to depart for Singapore on board SQ437 from Male to Singapore tonight however didn’t board the plane as a result of safety points, Each day Mirror added citing sources.
Furthermore, securing a personal plane for the embattled President is at the moment in talks, Maldivian Media reported.
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his spouse together with two bodyguards from Katunayake Worldwide Airport travelled to the Maldives after full approval of the nation’s Protection Ministry on Wednesday. An Air Power flight was given early within the morning on thirteenth July 2022.
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Wednesday was sworn in because the President for a short lived interval until a brand new President is elected by Parliament on July 20 and nominations for the presidency can be known as for on July 19.
Sri Lanka is going through the worst financial disaster since its independence which has led to huge protests demanding the ouster of Rajapaksa because the President. Sri Lanka’s speaker of parliament Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena has mentioned political celebration leaders have determined to elect a brand new president on July 20 by a vote in parliament.
The event comes after hundreds of individuals stormed into the President’s Home in Fort on Saturday. The dramatic visuals additionally got here from PM’s official residence the place they had been seen enjoying carrom board, sleeping on the couch, having fun with in park premises and making ready meals for dinner.
Within the wake of report meals value inflation, skyrocketing gas prices and widespread commodity shortages, some 61 per cent of households in Sri Lanka are often utilizing coping methods to chop down on prices, resembling lowering the quantity they eat and consuming more and more much less nutritious meals.
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