Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena announced that the President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is still present in Sri Lanka and had not fled the country. He calimed that it was a mistake that he mentioned the President fleeing from the country. 

Sri Lanka, a country of 22 million people, has been under the grip of unprecedented economic turmoil, the worst in seven decades. The nation is crippled by an acute shortage of foreign exchange that has left it struggling to pay for imports of fuel, and other essentials.

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