Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, whose household has dominated the country’s politics for a lot of the previous twenty years, has agreed to resign, the parliament’s speaker mentioned, after antigovernment protesters stormed and occupied the president’s residence and workplace.
In a televised assertion on Saturday evening, Sri Lanka’s parliamentary speaker, Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena, mentioned the president had knowledgeable him of his intention to step down Wednesday “to ensure a peaceful transition of power.”
