State of emergency as Sri Lanka protests continue

Dozens of protestors gathered on Monday at a railway station in Colombo to protest interim president RanilWickremesinghe.
Wickremesinghe became acting president on Friday after his predecessor, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, fled abroad and resigned after mass protests over the country’s economic collapse.The acting president on Monday declared a state of emergency giving him broad authority amid growing protests demanding his resignation two days before the country’s lawmakers are set to elect a new president.Lawmakers who met on Saturday began the process of electing a new leader to serve the rest of the term abandoned by Rajapaksa.Nominations for the election of the new president will be heard on Tuesday, and if there is more than one candidate the lawmakers will vote on Wednesday.