Sri Lanka exploded and a solution to the political and financial crisis seemed invisible. Financial difficulties can only be overcome after the political chaos is controlled. The lack of trust in leadership is currently evident from the waves of protests on the paths of Kolombo against Rajapaksas, Ranil Wickremesinghe and the speakers. However, regardless of the problem, the legislative machine has not been fully damaged.
According to procedures, as President Gotabaya Rajapaksa resigned, the Prime Minister will be appointed ‘Acting President’ until the time the parliament chose to elect a new president.
Who all are in the fray?
There are three candidates who are in the commotion to become the next prime minister:
Ranil Wickremesinghe, who will be the acting president, returns as Prime Minister after Mahinda Rajapaksa stops and escapes from Kolombo because of the financial crisis.
But Dulas Daham Kumara Alahapperuma is the choice of alliances that regulate. A member of parliament from the Matara District and the Minister of Information in the Mahinda Rajapaksa government, he was known to be close to the Rajapaksa family. The ruling alliance continues to have the highest number even though they did not make the middle sign 113 at the 225 house.
They still have 103 members of parliament (including Rajapaksas) because 43 members of parliament now form a faction that separates ‘independent parliament members’.
Sajith Premadasa from the SJB Alliance has 53 members of parliament. If he can gather support from 43 members of parliament who separate, 3 from JVB and 10 from the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) then he has the opportunity to become the next leader of a problematic nation.
Parliamentary voting to elect the next president is likely to be held on July 20 and will be a secret ballot without a whip. There may be a large -scale cross.
Who is Sajith Premadasa
Sajith Premadasa, a former member of Wickremesinghe’s UNP and now the Head of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) alliance has thrown his hat on the ring. In an interview with a media network in Sri Lanka, he said that he would only provide presidency after the resignation of Gotabaya.
He is the son of Ranasinghe Premadasa who served as Prime Minister from 1978 to 1988 and as president from 1989 to 1993 from Sri Lanka. Ranasinghe was killed by LTTE on May 1, 1993.
Sajith Premadasa has the beginning of politics. Owned by the political family, he was the leader of the United National Party from Hambantota and became a member of parliament for the first time in 2000.
He is the only leader who is not tarnished by the government of the past and has been brave with a policy position. Sajith was one of the first leaders to call on the elimination of the form of the president’s government. He also became an inclusive political provider. He stood against racism and minority alienation.
In fact, he had said in the past that the main challenges of the country’s security came from minority alienation. This position can give him the support of Tamil needed during the voting.
The anger protesters over the power outage, lack of basic goods and price increases have long demanded that Rajapaksa resign, but military officers who have retired have rejected demands for months, asking for emergency forces in an effort to maintain control. But in the last few days, the protesters entered the Presidential Palace, burned the burning PM and forced President Rajapaksa to escape the country.
The crisis that gripped the island state came in the middle of negotiations with international monetary funds (IMF) on the rescue plan, as well as proposals to restructure their sovereign debt, both of which can be thrown into chaos.
Sri Lanka’s problem has been social and he has avoided division politics. While the numbers do not like Sajith Premradasa until now and he may or may not be able to swing numbers in the upcoming voting for the president, he is certainly the biggest face for the country and can play a key role in bringing the country out of this crisis.