Sri Lanka: Protesters demand president's resignation, opposition rejects unity offer

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Sri Lanka's opposition, on Monday, dismissed President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's invitation to join a unity government, calling it 'nonsensical' and instead, demanded he should resign over the country's worsening shortages of food, fuel, and medicines.

Sri Lanka’s opposition, on Monday, dismissed President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s invitation to join a unity government, calling it “nonsensical” and instead, demanded he should resign over the country’s worsening shortages of food, fuel, and medicines.Rajapaksa’s overture came as armed troops looked to quell more demonstrations over what the government acknowledged as the country’s most severe economic crisis since independence from Britain in 1948.

“We will not be joining this government,” “The Rajapaksa family must step down,” the main opposition leader of Samagi Jana Balawegaya party, Eran Wickramaratne, told newsmen. “His offer to reconstitute the cabinet with opposition MPs is nonsensical and infuriates the people who have been demanding his resignation,” Tamil National Alliance’s Abraham Sumanthiran said.

 

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