Sri Lanka president agrees to remove brother as PM

By Associated Press

May 01, 2022 12:13 am

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has agreed to replace his older brother Mahinda Rajapaksa as prime minister in a proposed interim government to solve a political impasse caused by the country's worst economic crisis in decades, a prominent lawmaker said on Friday.

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