Sri Lanka Speaker takes U-turn, says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa nonetheless in nation

Sri Lanka Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena mentioned that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa remains to be within the nation. The speaker made a U-turn as he had earlier mentioned that Rajapaksa had fled the nation and would return by Wednesday.

Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa (Photo: Reuters/File)

Sri Lanka Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena on Monday took a U-turn on President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s whereabouts and mentioned that the president remains to be within the nation. The speaker mentioned that his dialog was reported out of context that the President had left the nation.

Sri Lanka speaker’s workplace informed India Today, “The honorable President and speaker have been in touch on and off mode and the President has been issuing formal communication to the speaker. Conversation published by the media was reported without a time frame reference.”

“While there were major political developments happening, the speaker was under the impression that the President was not in the country. His location has not been officially notified because of security reasons. The statement by the speaker has been reported out of context that the president is out of the country,” the speaker’s workplace mentioned.

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Thousands of protesters stormed into the official residence of Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in rage over the federal government’s mishandling of the nation’s worst financial disaster.

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Protesters swarmed into the residence of Gotabaya and visuals of them figuring out on the gymnasium, swimming within the president’s pool, eating within the kitchen and enjoyable within the bedrooms went viral. Protesters claimed that they’d discovered hundreds of thousands of rupees within the president’s home, which they returned over to the safety models.

The protesters had known as for the president’s resignation over his dealing with of the nation’s dire financial disaster. Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had knowledgeable Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena that he could be resigning from his submit on July 13. On Monday, the embattled president formally conveyed to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe that he would resign on July 13 as beforehand introduced.

The island nation is witnessing its worst financial disaster in seven many years, leaving hundreds of thousands struggling to purchase meals, medicines, gas and different necessities.

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