Nov. 2 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Hundreds of people have demonstrated this Wednesday in the streets of the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, in a march called by more than 150 organizations to protest against the government of Ranil Wickremesinghe.
Protesters have marched from the Elphinstone theater while a strong police force blocked the streets, even preventing the passage of members of the opposition Samagi Jana Balawegaya party.
After several moments of tension in which the attendees have tried to push the police officers, the leader of the opposition party, Sajith Premadasa, as well as some of his companions, have asked for calm and the cessation of violence, according to the newspaper ‘Daily Mirror’.
The appointment of Wickremesinghe as the new president has not managed to completely calm the population, which considers that it is a “patch” to what is already the biggest crisis that the country has faced since it achieved independence from the United Kingdom. .
Wickremesinghe, who was appointed president by Parliament on July 20 after the flight of Gotabaya Rajapaksa, has given a certain sense of stability to the country after addressing the shortage of water and fuel, the main reasons why the population decided to take to the streets. .
The former president gave in after several months of protests over rising prices, lack of food, medicine and fuel, which put the small Asian island on the path of its worst economic crisis since it gained independence from the British colonial yoke.
The popular revolution in Sri Lanka thus forced the final downfall of the Rajapaksa family, after former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa forced his brother Mahinda to step down as prime minister in early May in a futile attempt to quell the protests.
