The situation in Sri Lanka is still calm, despite a difficult political environment in the country, a spokesperson for the Russian embassy in Colombo told Sputnik.
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 13th November, 2018) The situation in Sri Lanka is still calm, despite a difficult political environment in the country, a spokesperson for the Russian embassy in Colombo told Sputnik."The current situation is still calm," the spokesperson said.
On Monday, key political parties and associations of Sri Lanka sent petitions to the Supreme Court demanding to revise the illegal, in their view, presidential decision to dissolve the parliament. On Tuesday, the court issued an order putting on hold the decree of President Maithripala Sirisena.
On October 26, Sirisena appointed Mahinda Rajapaksa, the former president of Sri Lanka from 2005 to 2015, on the post of the prime minister, shortly after sacking elected Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.
Wickremesinghe said that he is still the head of the government in accordance with the constitution. After that Sirisena announced a break in the parliamentary work triggering a wave of protests across the country.
