Mahinda Rajapaksa — who resigned as the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka after his supporters attacked anti-government protesters and sparked a day of violence — will no longer fly the nation, his son acknowledged on Tuesday.
The 76-year-aged heads a political clan whose preserve on energy has been shaken by months of blackouts and shortages in the island nation, which is struggling its worst economic disaster since independence in 1948.
Mr. Mahinda needed to be evacuated by the defense pressure from his official say on Monday night after it changed into once besieged by an angry crowd.
Nonetheless his son Namal, himself once touted as a future national chief, acknowledged the Rajapaksa family had no plans to leave Sri Lanka despite weeks of protests stressful they relinquish energy.
“There are moderately a lot of rumours that we’re going to leave. We can no longer leave the nation,” he acknowledged, describing the surge of national madden in opposition to his family as a “obnoxious patch”.
He added that Mr. Mahinda would no longer step down as a lawmaker and wished to play an lively position in selecting his successor.
Mr. Mahinda changed into once taken to an undisclosed method after protesters on Monday night
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