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Sri Lanka’s 73-year-old President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country after demonstrators against his bankrupt policies stormed the presidential palace at the weekend.
Rajapaksa today emailed his letter of resignation to the Speaker of Parliament, shortly after arriving in Singapore.
The resignation will now be passed to the country’s chief prosecutor for possible legal implications, before it is accepted, said the spokesman of the speaker of the parliament Indunil Yapa.
Then the original letter will be sent to Colombo from Singapore, a source close to the matter told Reuters.
The development makes it clear that the reason for delaying the resignation of the president while he was in his place, was only to preserve his immunity from the fear of arrest.
Meanwhile, protesters continue to take to the streets amid the severe economic crisis in the island state with 22 million inhabitants.
Rajapaksa, wife Ioma and two bodyguards arrived in Singapore from the Maldives, where they had stopped a day earlier.
Meanwhile in Sri Lanka, protesters are reported to have left government buildings and the military has deployed security in the parliament area, establishing a tense calm amid the country’s economic destruction by the political class.
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