Earth Bureau ｜ Brother's governing the country is in trouble, and a Sri Lanka political family is floating

Reporter Zhao Enting

Sri Lanka, a South Asian island country with a low international exposure, has recently made headlines: the economic crisis that has not been in the independence for more than 70 years has pushed the entire country to the bankruptcy situation, and large -scale protest protests have caused "earthquakes" in politics.

However, the political situation of Sri Lanka did not settle the day, but it was a bit confusing: Gota Baya Rajapaksa is still the president of Sri Lanka? Prime Minister Victormazinha still resign?

Gotapa Rajapaksa (front)

[The president who ran away]

On July 9, a large -scale protests broke out in Coronapo, the capital of Sri Lanka, and demonstrators have shocked and occupied the official residence of the President and Prime Minister. President Gotabaya and Prime Minister Victormaxa were transferred to a safe place. In the afternoon of the same day, at a emergency party meeting, most party leaders asked the president and the Prime Minister to resign immediately to form an interim government participating in each party as soon as possible.

Forced by pressure, Victor Marinha announced his resignation on the same day; Gota Baya first stated that he would resign on the 13th, and then officially announced his resignation on the 11th. However, until the 14th, Sri Lanka Speaker Abvadner did not receive Gotapa's resignation letter.

At the same time, Gotapa's whereabouts have attracted much attention. At the beginning, Abvadner claimed that President Gotabaya had gone to the third country, and then changed his mouth to say that he was wrong, and the president was still in the country. Later, there were reports that Gotapa and his wife planned to go to the UAE, but on the 11th at the Bandaranak International Airport in Colombo, the departure from the country was blocked because he was unwilling to take the ordinary passage of the airport because of safety considerations. The officials of the bureau refused to stamp their passports. Gotabaya was there a flight from multiple Sri Lanka airlines to the UAE.

Earlier on the 13th, the Sri Lankan Prime Minister's office confirmed that Gotapa had left the country. On the same day, the Sri Lanka Air Force issued a statement saying that Gotapa and his wife, and two security personnel took the Air Force aircraft to the neighboring Maldives. The statement said that providing flight convenience for Gotapa is based on the power given to the president, the request of the government, and obtained the permission of the Ministry of National Defense.

According to Maldives media reports, Gotapa arrived in Maldives, Maldives, in the early morning of the 13th, and Maldives' Speaker Nashid greeted at the airport. But the Maldives was not the ultimate destination of Gotapaa. According to reports, he reached a Saudi Airlines flight to Singapore on the 14th and then went to Saudi Arabia.

On May 12th, Victor Minda (left) swore to the Prime Minister to Gotapabaya (right). (Xinhua News Agency)

【Leave Prime Minister】

On the day Gotabaya arrived in the Maldives, Abywadner received his notice saying that, in view of that he was not in the country, Prime Minister Victor Masinger would exercise the president's authority in accordance with the constitutional regulations. On the 13th, Victormazima, who was in the country, announced an emergency in Sri Lanka nationwide, and the western province of the capital Colombo was on a curfew.

Victor Masinha not only did not resign the post of prime minister, but also added president's power. According to the decision of the Sri Lankan party leader meeting on the 11th, the parliament will be held on the 15th, and the presidential candidate is nominated on the 19th. On the 20th, the new president was selected. If the temporary government has been successfully formed since then, the Prime Minister's career in Victor Marinha may end again.

The reason why it is said "again" is that the 73 -year -old Victor Masinger is a veteran in Sri Lanka. The first time he served as the prime minister can be traced back to the 1990s (May 1993 to August 1994). Since entering this century, he has served as Prime Minister from December 2001 to April 2004, January 2015 to October 2018, December 2018 to November 2019.

Since the beginning of this year, the economic crisis of Sri Lanka has continued to deteriorate, affected by factors such as the impact of the new crown epidemic, the limitation of its own economic structure, the incorrect fiscal and taxation policy, and the rise in international commodity prices. The dilemma of foreign exchange depletion.

The economic dilemma caused a political turmoil. On May 9, then the then Prime Minister Maxinda Rajapaksa resigned. On the 12th of the same month, Victormazima was appointed Prime Minister, which was in danger. However, when he said that "the country is bankrupt" on the 6th of this month, his prime minister's term of office was concluded again. According to data from the Sri Lanka Ministry of Finance in May, the country's use of foreign exchange reserves is less than 50 million US dollars.

Mazinda (top) and Chamal, Gotapa, and Brazil (from left to right).

【Floating and Sinking of Giants】

In fact, Victor Minda took over the mess left by the Rajapaksa brothers, behind this is the political giants of Sri Lanka -the Rajapaksa family. Now it seems that Ma Xinta, who resigned from the post of Prime Minister in early May, first got rid of the current political vortex, but the Rajapaksa family still became the target of the criticism.

At the same time as Gotapa was observed, his younger brother, Brazil Rajapaksa, was also blocked by the public and officials when the airport left, and was forced to leave the airport quickly. In addition, in the current situation, how does Ma Xinta's situation become a mystery.

There are four brothers in the Rajapaksa family, where they are Chamal, Maxinda, Gotapa, and Brazil. Among them, Malacca can be called the pillar of this giants.

Malaysia successively served as Prime Minister from April 2004 to November 2005, October 2018 to December 2018, and November 2019 to May 2022. In contrastBy January 2015, Ma Xinta served as two presidents.After Ma Xinda served as the president, he recruited several brothers. In addition to Gotapa, who was the executive secretary in the Ministry of National Defense at the time, his younger brother, Brazil, was appointed Minister of Economic Development.An important foundation for this family to reach the peak of power is the help of Maxinda with the help of brothers such as Gotapa, and announced in May 2009 that the "Tamil Tiger Organization" was annihilated by the terrorist organization, ending Sri Lanka's recent civil war.

Despite the reasons such as the tape and the corruption scandal, Ma Xinta lost to the opponent of the opponent in the 2015 election, but in November 2019, the Rajapaksa family came again.Corusted to the Prime Minister.

Today, this political giants have been hit again, and then Sri Lanka will pick up the beam.

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