Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe was elected as the new president of Sri Lanka in an election held in parliament on Wednesday.
Gotabaya Rajapaksa resigned from the post of president last week following massive protests.
Mr Wickremesinghe was sworn in following the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned after months of protests around the country’s economic collapse and widespread hardship
Sri Lanka’s acting president, Ranil Wickremesinghe, on Wednesday declared a state of emergency and imposed a curfew to control a fresh wave of protests in Colombo.
Mr Wickremesinghe, who served as the country’s prime minister four times, was in October 2018 fired from the post by Sri Lanka’s seventh president, Maithripala Sirisena.
Meanwhile, Sri Lanka continues to face a severe fuel shortage, with long queues for petrol and diesel across the country.
In two months, cash-strapped Sri Lanka has imposed the third fuel price increase as a campaign demanding that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa step down continued, officials said.
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Protests against the rising cost of living, fuel and gas shortages, and prolonged power cuts have begun since mid-March.
