Economic crisis will test Sri Lanka’s new old guard
Sri Lanka will soon enough find out whether putting a member of its discredited political establishment in charge of steering the country out of the crisis is going to work.
The dramatic exit was a prelude to the anti-climactic appointment of a new president by parliament, which put its support behind Ranil Wikremesinghe, a long-time Rajapaksa ally.
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Liam Gammon is a research fellow in the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research and an editor at East Asia Forum (www.eastasiaforum.org) in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the ANU’s College of Asia and the Pacific.
