Sri Lanka will not extend state of emergency this week

Aug. 16 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The president of Sri Lanka, Ranil Wickremesinghe, has announced that he will not extend the state of emergency decreed in July and that, therefore, it will expire this Thursday, after the application of this exceptional measure received criticism from human rights organizations. Humans.

Wickremesinghe considers that the circumstances no longer exist to prolong the state of emergency and has promised to carry out a series of reforms to alleviate social discontent, including giving Parliament more power and changing the electoral system, according to the Sri Lankan newspaper ‘ DailyMirror’.

The current president assumed the reins of Sri Lanka after the departure of Gotabaya Rajapaksa, besieged by unprecedented mobilizations with which citizens cried out against the worst economic crisis in recent decades. Last week marked four months since the start of these demonstrations, with a decline in participation in the protests.

According to the opposition, however, the appointment as president of Wickremesinghe, an old acquaintance who has already held the position of prime minister in up to five different stages, is nothing more than a patch to the greatest crisis facing the island’s inhabitants. since it broke its chains with the United Kingdom.