The particular legal provisions of the latest emergency are yet to be announced by the government yet previous emergency regulations have been used to deploy the military in order to arrest and detain people, search personal property and dampen public protests.
The nation’s commercial capital Colombo remained calm on Monday morning, with traffic and pedestrians out on the streets.
Bhavani Fonseka, senior researcher at the Centre for Policy Alternatives, said declaring a state of crisis was becoming the government’s default response.
“This provides proven ineffective previously, ” Fonseka informed Reuters.
Rajapaksa’s resignation was recognized by parliament upon Friday. He flew to the Maldives and then Singapore after hundreds of thousands of anti-government protesters came out onto the particular streets of Colombo a week ago and busy his official residence and office.
Sri Lanka’s parliament met on Sunday to begin the process of electing a new president, plus a shipment of energy arrived to provide some relief to the crisis-hit nation.
Wickremesinghe, who had previously been prime ressortchef (umgangssprachlich) and was thought to be an ally of Rajapaksa, is one of the top contenders to take on the presidency full-time but protesters also want him gone, leading to the prospect of further unrest should he end up being elected.