Harry Rosen
Gotabaya Rajapaksa had promised overthe weekend to resign on Wednesday (File)
Colombo:
Sri Lanka’s embattled president flew out of his nation to the Maldives early Wednesday, in a possible prelude to his resignation after months of widespread protests in opposition to his island nation’s worst-ever financial disaster.
Gotabaya Rajapaksa had promised over the weekend to resign on Wednesday and clear the way in which for a “peaceable transition of energy” after fleeing his official residence in Colombo simply earlier than tens of hundreds of protesters overran it.
As president, Rajapaksa enjoys immunity from arrest, and he’s believed to have wished to go overseas earlier than stepping right down to keep away from the opportunity of being detained
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