After Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe resigns, protesters set his house on fire
— President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has agreed to resign in the coming days, the speaker of Sri Lanka's Parliament said on a tumultuous Saturday that also saw the prime minister say he would step down and the storming of both leaders' residences by protesters angry over the nation's severe economic crisis.
Opposition lawmaker Rauff Hakeem said a consensus was reached for the speaker of Parliament to take over as temporary president and work on an interim government. Hours earlier Wickremesinghe had announced his own impending resignation, amid calls for him to quit. But he said he will not step down until a new government is formed, angering protesters who demanded his immediate departure.
for most of the past two decades but is accused by protesters of dragging the country into chaos through poor management and alleged corruption. The president's older brother resigned as prime minister in May after violent protests saw him seek safety at a naval base.
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