The Speaker of the Parliament will take over as temporary President according to the constitution, Rauff Hakeem said.
Participating in the party leaders’ meeting, Hakeem added that a decision has been taken to ask both the President and the Prime Minister to resign. However Ranil Wickremesinghe has disagreed.
Party Leaders to immediately agree on an all party government. This has a few glitches and several alternatives are being discussed.
— Rauff Hakeem (@Rauff_Hakeem) July 9, 2022
Correction to my earlier tweet on consensus to ask PM and President to resign. No consensus as PM disagrees. Speaker however decided to write to President and PM to resign as per overwhelming request.
— Rauff Hakeem (@Rauff_Hakeem) July 9, 2022
The Prime Minister on Saturday (09) summoned an emergency meeting of political party leaders after protesters stormed the President’s house in the commercial capital Colombo amid growing anger over the government’s handling of an economic crisis.
