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Sri Lanka鈥檚 President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is expected to resign this week after months of street protests over surging prices and shortages of basic goods such as food or petrol.

Dr Harini Amarasuriya is a member of Sri Lanka鈥檚 parliament with the opposition National People鈥檚 Power party. She told Newsday that the president's formal resignation is expected this week and that an interim president will be installed who 鈥渃an alleviate the immediate sufferings that people are going through鈥� but no-one is expecting long-term solutions to come from this interim arrangement. For that we do need a new government鈥�.

(Picture: Sri Lankans occupy the president's official residence in Colombo. Protest leaders said they would occupy the residences of the president and prime minister until both finally quit office. Credit: Akila Jayawardana/NurPhoto via Getty Images)