Sri Lanka’s Lawmakers to Elect New President Within A Week
- Rajapaksa officially resigns after landing in Singapore
- Acting president clamps emergency, curfew to quell violence
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Sri Lankan lawmakers will elect a new president within seven days, the parliament speaker said after he confirmed that embattled leader Gotabaya Rajapaksa had officially resigned.
Rajapaksa had ceded to the monthslong street protests calling for his ouster over fuel shortages, surging prices and financial mismanagement that’s left the South Asian nation facing its worst economic crisis.