COLOMBO, July 11 — Leaders of Sri Lanka’s protest movement said yesterday they would occupy the residences of the president and prime minister until they finally quit office,...
COLOMBO, July 11 — Leaders of Sri Lanka’s protest movement said yesterday they would occupy the residences of the president and prime minister until they finally quit office, the day after the two men agreed to resign leaving the country in political limbo.
“The president has to resign, the prime minister has to resign and the government has to go,” playwright Ruwanthie de Chickera told a news conference at the main protest site in Colombo. “I’ve never seen a place like this in my life,” 61-year-old handkerchief seller BM Chandrawathi, accompanied by her daughter and grandchildren, told Reuters as she tried out a plush sofa in a first-floor bedroom.
It has been compounded by large and growing government debt, rising oil prices and a seven-month ban on importing chemical fertilisers last year that devastated agriculture. “We would urge the Sri Lankan parliament to approach this with a commitment to the betterment of the country, not any one political party,” he said at a news conference in Bangkok.
“We hope for a resolution of the current situation that will allow for resumption of our dialogue on an IMF-supported programme,” the global lender said in a statement.Rajapaksa has not been seen in public since Friday has not directly said anything about resigning. Wickremesinghe’s office said he would also quit, although neither he nor Rajapaksa could be contacted.
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