Sri Lanka is mired in a deep political and economic crisis, and on Wednesday, the country’s president flew out of the country days after a huge crowd of protesters stormed his residence.
Rodrigo Duterte steps down as president Thursday after a six-year term marked by a bloody drug war, a devastating pandemic and the worst economic crisis in decades.
Sri Lanka’s parliament has cancelled its remaining sittings for the week to save fuel, officials said Thursday, with a disastrous economic crisis rapidly depleting the island nation’s already scarce petrol supplies.
Sri Lanka’s beleaguered president side-stepped a censure motion on Tuesday after his fractured coalition rallied to delay a resolution blaming him for the country’s worst economic crisis.
Former House Speaker and incumbent Taguig-Pateros Rep. Alan Peter Cayetano called on the winners of the May 9 elections to “hit the ground running” to address the worsening economic crisis.
Thousands of Sri Lankan university students mobbed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa’s home on Sunday demanding his resignation over the island nation’s worsening economic crisis.
Former House Speaker and incumbent Taguig-Pateros Rep. Alan Peter Cayetano vowed to make sure that the Legislative branch would not resort to “shortcut” programs in solving the ongoing economic crisis.
Sri Lanka’s leader dropped two of his brothers and a nephew from his cabinet Monday, following public anger over the ruling family’s mismanagement of a crippling economic crisis and calls for his resignation.
Malacañang on Friday refuted the statement of economist Solita Monsod that the successor of President Rodrigo Duterte will inherit a government undergoing an educational crisis, health crisis and economic crisis.
Veteran Greek politician Karolos Papoulias, who served as president at the height of the economic crisis of the 2010s, died on Sunday at the age