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Sri Lankan president resigns, Parliament to convene

In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, Ranil Wickremesinghe takes oath as the interim President in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana arrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, interim President Ranil Wickremesinghe, right, greets Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya during the oath-taking ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, Ranil Wickremesinghe takes oath as the interim President in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana arrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, interim President Ranil Wickremesinghe, right, greets Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya during the oath-taking ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, interim President Ranil Wickremesinghe, right, greets Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya during the oath-taking ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, Ranil Wickremesinghe takes oath as the interim President in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana arrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, interim President Ranil Wickremesinghe, right, greets Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya during the oath-taking ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, Ranil Wickremesinghe takes oath as the interim President in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana arrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, interim President Ranil Wickremesinghe, right, greets Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya during the oath-taking ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, Ranil Wickremesinghe takes oath as the interim President in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana arrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, interim President Ranil Wickremesinghe, right, greets Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya during the oath-taking ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, Ranil Wickremesinghe takes oath as the interim President in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana arrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, interim President Ranil Wickremesinghe, right, greets Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya during the oath-taking ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, Ranil Wickremesinghe takes oath as the interim President in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana arrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, interim President Ranil Wickremesinghe, right, greets Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya during the oath-taking ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, Ranil Wickremesinghe takes oath as the interim President in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana arrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, interim President Ranil Wickremesinghe, right, greets Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya during the oath-taking ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, Ranil Wickremesinghe takes oath as the interim President in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana arrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, interim President Ranil Wickremesinghe, right, greets Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya during the oath-taking ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, Ranil Wickremesinghe takes oath as the interim President in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana arrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, interim President Ranil Wickremesinghe, right, greets Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya during the oath-taking ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, Ranil Wickremesinghe takes oath as the interim President in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana arrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, interim President Ranil Wickremesinghe, right, greets Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya during the oath-taking ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, Ranil Wickremesinghe takes oath as the interim President in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana arrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, interim President Ranil Wickremesinghe, right, greets Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya during the oath-taking ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, Ranil Wickremesinghe takes oath as the interim President in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana arrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, interim President Ranil Wickremesinghe, right, greets Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya during the oath-taking ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, Ranil Wickremesinghe takes oath as the interim President in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana arrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, interim President Ranil Wickremesinghe, right, greets Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya during the oath-taking ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, Ranil Wickremesinghe takes oath as the interim President in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana arrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, interim President Ranil Wickremesinghe, right, greets Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya during the oath-taking ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, Ranil Wickremesinghe takes oath as the interim President in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana arrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, interim President Ranil Wickremesinghe, right, greets Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya during the oath-taking ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, Ranil Wickremesinghe takes oath as the interim President in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana arrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, interim President Ranil Wickremesinghe, right, greets Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya during the oath-taking ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, Ranil Wickremesinghe takes oath as the interim President in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana arrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, interim President Ranil Wickremesinghe, right, greets Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya during the oath-taking ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, Ranil Wickremesinghe takes oath as the interim President in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana arrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, interim President Ranil Wickremesinghe, right, greets Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya during the oath-taking ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, Ranil Wickremesinghe takes oath as the interim President in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana arrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, interim President Ranil Wickremesinghe, right, greets Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya during the oath-taking ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, Ranil Wickremesinghe takes oath as the interim President in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana arrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, interim President Ranil Wickremesinghe, right, greets Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya during the oath-taking ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, Ranil Wickremesinghe takes oath as the interim President in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana arrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, interim President Ranil Wickremesinghe, right, greets Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya during the oath-taking ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, Ranil Wickremesinghe takes oath as the interim President in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, Ranil Wickremesinghe takes oath as the interim President in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana arrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana arrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, interim President Ranil Wickremesinghe, right, greets Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya during the oath-taking ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, interim President Ranil Wickremesinghe, right, greets Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya during the oath-taking ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, Ranil Wickremesinghe takes oath as the interim President in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana arrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, interim President Ranil Wickremesinghe, right, greets Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya during the oath-taking ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, Ranil Wickremesinghe takes oath as the interim President in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana arrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, interim President Ranil Wickremesinghe, right, greets Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya during the oath-taking ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, Ranil Wickremesinghe takes oath as the interim President in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana arrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, interim President Ranil Wickremesinghe, right, greets Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya during the oath-taking ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, Ranil Wickremesinghe takes oath as the interim President in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana arrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, interim President Ranil Wickremesinghe, right, greets Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya during the oath-taking ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, Ranil Wickremesinghe takes oath as the interim President in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana arrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, interim President Ranil Wickremesinghe, right, greets Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya during the oath-taking ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, Ranil Wickremesinghe takes oath as the interim President in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana arrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, interim President Ranil Wickremesinghe, right, greets Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya during the oath-taking ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, Ranil Wickremesinghe takes oath as the interim President in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana arrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, interim President Ranil Wickremesinghe, right, greets Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya during the oath-taking ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, Ranil Wickremesinghe takes oath as the interim President in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana arrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, interim President Ranil Wickremesinghe, right, greets Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya during the oath-taking ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, Ranil Wickremesinghe takes oath as the interim President in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana arrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, interim President Ranil Wickremesinghe, right, greets Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya during the oath-taking ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, Ranil Wickremesinghe takes oath as the interim President in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana arrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, interim President Ranil Wickremesinghe, right, greets Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya during the oath-taking ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, Ranil Wickremesinghe takes oath as the interim President in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana arrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, interim President Ranil Wickremesinghe, right, greets Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya during the oath-taking ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana arrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana arrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana arrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana arrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana arrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana arrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana arrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana arrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana arrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana arrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana sarrives to address a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, right, speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana leaves after addressing a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana speaks during a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Abeywardana says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over government buildings to force him out of office. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Army soldiers stand guard as protesters sleep by the entrance to president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have sought for months. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)