Sri Lanka’s PM Ranil Wickremesinghe invites youth groups to be part of governance under political reforms he is proposing to solve the country’s political crisis
Students have led nearly daily protests in capital Colombo and elsewhere as Sri Lanka teeters on the brink of bankruptcy.
In a televised statement to the nation on Sunday, he said that governance will be broad-based through parliamentary committees where lawmakers, youth and experts will work together. They also want an overhaul of a system of governance, saying successive administrations since independence from Britain in 1948 have misruled the country leading to economic and social crises.Students have led nearly daily protests in capital Colombo and elsewhere as Sri Lanka teeters on the brink of bankruptcy. It has already defaulted on its foreign loans, and is battling acute shortages of essential goods like cooking gas, fuel and medicines.
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