Sri Lankan President confirms his resignation from office

July 11 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The President of Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, confirmed to the Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, that he will present his resignation, as he had previously announced.

According to what was agreed by the Sri Lankan political forces, after the resignation, Rajapaksa becomes the president of the Parliament, who assumes the head of State –according to the Constitution– and for a period of 30 days in which the Parliament will elect a new president, as reported by ‘Voice of Sri Lanka’.

The popular revolution that broke out this Saturday in Sri Lanka has thus forced the resignation of Rajapaksa, who has announced that he is leaving office after giving in to pressure from multiple fronts from the country’s political formations and civil associations due to his inability to tackle the crisis. most serious economic crisis in the nation’s history.

Rajapaksa thus gives in after months of protests over the lack of food and fuel that have finally led to widespread criticism of the president, accused of corruption and nepotism by placing his brother Mahinda as prime minister until he was finally forced to force his cease in May, again due to popular pressure.

Mahinda’s successor, Ranil Wickremesinghe, Rajapaksa’s old rival and the president’s last option to solve the crisis, ended up resigning hours earlier to make way for a concentration government whose main function will be to call new elections.