Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa offers to share power with the opposition a day after the country's cabinet ministers and central bank governor resigned over a deepening economic crisis
Sri Lanka's president has offered to share power with the opposition as protests escalated across the country demanding his resignation over worsening shortages of food, fuel and medicines.
It stressed that solutions to the deepening crisis should be found "within a democratic framework", as hundreds were joining spontaneous demonstrations in cities, towns and villages.The invitation came after 26 cabinet ministers - every member except Rajapaksa and his elder brother Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa - submitted letters of resignation at a late-night meeting.
The government has announced it will seek a bailout from the International Monetary Fund, but talks are yet to begin. "Go home Gota, go home Gota" protesters shouted in Rajagiriya, near the national parliament, while in Negombo, near the main international airport, people chanted, "Gota fail, fail, fail".
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