COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's government on Thursday proposed amending the constitution to trim presidential powers and beef up anti-corruption powers to help shore up stability and defuse unrest provoked by the country's worst financial crisis in decades.
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, whom critics blame for the financial crisis for having given key posts to relatives and being slow to seek an International Monetary Fund bailout, has been under prolonged pressure to step down, though he has said he plans to stay on until his term ends in 2024.
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