Colombo: Overcoming the May May demonstration organized by his party in Polonnaruwa, former President of Sri Lanka and Chairman of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) Maithripala Sirisena on Sunday calling for a new election in the country.Said that politicians had to side with the people when the country faced a big tragedy, Sirisena said that he took to the streets on International Labor Day for this purpose, reporting Colombo Page.
“I also took to the streets because the government did not go even when people from the country were richest until innocent farmers and civil servants took to the streets that demanded the government to go home. I wanted to form a new government in the country. We will do it,” Sirisena was quoted as saying by the Colombo page.The former president added that he could not stay at home when people were depressed with thousands of problems in the country.
“Farmers in Polonnaruwa who dreamed of making an independent country in agriculture from the Moragahakanda reservoir now cannot process even every day. Today I participate in the May Day general meeting from the working class that raises the votes of farmers’ community and express their problems and challenges to the ruling class The country, “said Sirisena.
The former president also warned that if the leaders currently survive, there will be a situation where people will die at home, adding that two or three people in the country are starving and he receives calls from people throughout the country throughout the country ask for food.Sri Lanka faced the worst economic crisis since independence with lack of food and fuel, soaring the price and cutting of electricity that affected a large number of people, which resulted in a large protest over the handling of government situations.
This recession was caused by a lack of foreign exchange caused by a decline in tourism during Pandemi Covid-19, as well as a careless economic policy, such as the government’s move last year to prohibit chemical fertilizers in an effort to make Sri Lanka agriculture “100 percent organic”.Due to the lack of acute foreign exchange, Sri Lanka had just failed to pay the total foreign debt of around USD 51 billion.The economic situation has led to a large protest with the demands of the resignation of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.