Sri Lanka. The president resigns and flees by ship. Possible government “of all” or “of no one”….
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, whose family has dominated Sri Lankan politics for much of the past 20 years, was invited by the country's political leaders to step down on Saturday, according to news reports from the NYTimes , after months of protests that they accuse the island nation's economy of collapsing through corruption and mismanagement.
The resignation request was confirmed by two lawmakers and came after protesters entered the president's residence and office and thousands more descended on the capital Colombo to express their growing anger at his government's inability to deal with. a paralyzing economic crisis. The president seems to have confirmed that he will resign from 13 July.
In the evening, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, who took office only in May and was addressing resignation requests, said he would step down, saying he had "the safety of all citizens" in mind.
Images have circulated on Twitter that would suggest that the president has fled on a Navy ship
Sri Lanka… President Rajapakse flees the country boarding a navy vessel pic.twitter.com/k1rLSC4D5K
– Pelham (@ Resist_05) July 9, 2022
It vaguely recalls a certain Italian King on 8 September 1943 …
Therefore, a terrible political and social vicissitude seems to be temporarily coming to an end, even if the country is far from having solved any problem. In a week he will be without money, without fuel, with little food, and still angry. government "All out", where by all we mean the enraged people …
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