INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa vowed to finish the remaining two years in his term despite monthslong street protests calling for his ouster,
with a foreign media organization since the crisis unfolded
decisions that led to severe shortages of everything from fuel to medicine, stoking inflation to 40% and forcing a historic debt default
in May.Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his new Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe are now seeking about $4 billion in aid this year from the
International Monetary Fund and countries including India and China
stints serving the nation
short-lived move to ban chemical fertilizers that caused crop output to slump.Gotabaya Rajapaksa was also skeptical about the success of a
planned amendment to the constitution, which seeks to contain the executive presidency
Cabinet is due to approve the proposals as early as Monday, which would rollback wide-ranging powers Gotabaya Rajapaksa pushed through
parliament shortly after he was elected president in 2019.A draft of the so-called 21st amendment gives some powers back to the parliament
and restores independence to commissions in key decisionmaking.Either the presidency should be abolished or the parliament is kept out of
(for a debt restructure) but that is for the capital markets
I personally spoke to the leaders and wrote to them
Then I have spoken to Middle Eastern leaders personally like Qatar, UAE especially, and want to speak to Saudi and Oman to get help for long
You know, I am not a politician
Fortunately or unfortunately people when they are in politics for so long you can have so much baggage, you have lot of friends
Lot of people who want help are your supporters
(powers) of the president? My personal opinion is that if you have a presidency he must have full powers
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