All announcements made by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will be issued by the Speaker after informing him, and therefore, only the announcements issued by the Speaker should be considered as the official announcements made by the President, a statement just dropped in by the President’s Office said, indicating what it appears to be a complete disregard for the announcement made by the Prime Minister’s Office earlier this morning.
Earlier this morning, the Prime Minister’s Office stated that President Rajapaksa will be announcing his resignation on July 13.
Had it not been a disregard for the statement by the PM’s Office this morning, there is no basis for a Head of State who is going to resign anyway to issue such an announcement of this nature out of nowhere. Further complicating the situation, a Presidential Secretariat is no more to confirm the claim, nor the attempts made to contact the President’s Secretary or any other top official for corroboration were successful.
In the backdrop, the emergence of the speculation that this would be the first sign of reversal of Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s so called decision to resign would be inevitable.
MIAP
