(Colombo Comprehensive Television) The Sri Lanka Parliament held the first meeting since the promulgation of the National Emergency Status on Tuesday, and at least 42 governing alliance members left the seat.This has caused the majority of the President Rajapaksa's ruling league to lose two -thirds of the position of the place.Changsha, the Ministry of Finance, resigned on the same day, who was in office, and the governor of the central bank had resigned the day before.
Sri Lanka President Rajapaksa originally hoped to organize the United Government. The People's Front party led by his leadership is striving to keep at least 113 seats in order to rely on simple majority seats to continue governing.
No longer supports Rajapaksa, including 14 members of the Liberal Party and 12 people's front party members in the ruling league.After the members of the league withdrew one after another, the current government has lost most of the positions of two -thirds of the seats in the parliament.
The conference held on Tuesday (April 5) will decide which political parties can obtain 113 and above seats through voting.The Sri Lankan parliament is a hospital system, consisting of 225 members, with a term of five years.The current parliament was elected in August 2020, when the People's Front Party won 146 seats with an absolute advantage.
Ali Sabry, who resigned on Tuesday, said in a statement: "New, positive and unconventional steps are needed to solve national problems."
The economic crisis has exacerbated the people's grievances, and the public has recently held protest rally in many places.After the violent incident, Rajapaksa announced late at night to report the country in an emergency, and issued a night ban on the 2nd to 4th.The curfew failed to stop the people on the street.
Except for Rajapaksa and his brother Ma Xinda, all 26 ministers in the cabinet submitted resignation at the late -night meeting on the 3rd on the 3rd.The president appointed four new ministers on the 4th, including the former Ministry of Justice Changsha Bili as the new financial minister.
Sri Lanka's population is about 22 million, and food, fuel and other essentials are currently seriously shortage. In addition, the recorded inflation and the power outage of 13 hours per day in recent days have fallen into the most serious crisis since 1948 from Britain's independence.
Sri Lanka has asked for help from the International Monetary Fund.The organization shows that it is paying close attention to the development of the political and economic situation of Sri Lanka.
