{"id":42397,"date":"2022-07-13T13:37:26","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T10:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=42397"},"modified":"2022-07-13T13:37:30","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T10:37:30","slug":"sri-lankan-president-flees-leaving-the-country-in-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=42397","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan president flees, leaving the country in trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>KYIV.\u00a0UkraineGate. 13. July . 2022 | World News .<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sri Lanka&#8217;s Colombo declared a state of emergency after thousands of people crowded into the prime minister&#8217;s office after the country&#8217;s president fled to the Maldives, following months of widespread protests against the economic crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Gotabaya Rajapaksa promised at the weekend to resign on Wednesday and pave the way for a &#8220;peaceful transition of power&#8221; after fleeing his official residence in Colombo before tens of thousands of protesters were overrun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As president, Rajapaksa is immune from arrest, and it is believed that he wanted to travel abroad before stepping down to avoid possible arrest.<br>Immigration sources said he, his wife and two bodyguards were on board an Antonov 32 military plane that took off from Sri Lanka&#8217;s main international airport.<br>Hours later, without an official announcement that he was stepping down, thousands of protesters crowded into the office of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe &#8211; who would automatically become acting president if he resigned &#8211; demanding his departure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KYIV.\u00a0UkraineGate. 13. July . 2022 | World News . Sri Lanka&#8217;s Colombo declared a state of emergency after thousands of people crowded into the prime minister&#8217;s office after the country&#8217;s president fled to the Maldives, following months of widespread protests against the economic crisis. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa promised at the weekend to resign on Wednesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":42398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[260,524,12129,12130],"class_list":["post-42397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international-news","tag-country","tag-international-news","tag-sri-lankan-president","tag-trouble"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42399,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42397\/revisions\/42399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}