The resignation that the Head of State had promised for Wednesday could be announced after his departure from Malé.
Le Monde with AFP
The president of Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaka, left the Maldives on Thursday July 14, aboard a plane from the Saudia company, in the direction of Singapore, announced an airport manager at the France Agency -Press, the day after his Colombo escape. Gotabaya Rajapaksa, his wife, Ioma, and two bodyguards were escorted in the device a few minutes before takeoff from Velana International Airport, in Malé, said the same source.
The Head of State fled his residence on Saturday, taken by storm by the demonstrators, who criticize him for his mismanagement when the country is going through the most serious economic crisis in its history.
The local press reports that it was conspired when leaving Velana airport, and a demonstration was organized in the capital, Malé, to ask the government of the Maldives not to let it pass safely.
The Maldivian media assure that Mr. Rajapaksa spent the night in the luxury hotel Waldorf Astoria Ithaafushi, parallel this opulence and the economic crisis that the Sri Lankan population is going through. According to security sources, the resignation that Mr. Rajapaksa had promised for Wednesday, could be announced after his departure from the Maldives.
“The letter of resignation has been prepared, explained one of these sources. As soon as it gives the green light, the president of the parliament will publish it.” According to diplomatic sources, the United States refused his request for Visa, because he had given up his American citizenship in 2019, before being a presidential candidate.