I-Agence France-Presse isanda kumemezela ukuthi uRanil Wickremesinghe ufungiswe njengebamba likamongameli waseSri Lanka.

UNdunankulu uRanil Wickremesinghe uqokwe njengebamba likamengameli waseSri Lanka, umengameli uMahinda Rajapaksa utshele isikhulumi ngoLwesine, kusho ihhovisi lakhe.

UMengameli waseSri Lanka uMahinda Rajapaksa usefikile eSingapore, kusho uSomlomo wephalamende laseSri Lanka uMahinda Abbewardena esithangamini nabezindaba ngoLwesine.

UMnyango Wezangaphandle eSingapore ukuqinisekisile ukuthi uMnu Rajapaksa uvunyelwe ukungena ezweni ukuze "avakashele ngasese", wengeza ngokuthi: "UMnu Rajapaksa akakayiceli indawo yokukhosela futhi akakayitholi."

UMnu Abbewardena uthe uMnu Rajapaksa umemezele ngokusemthethweni ukwesula kwakhe nge-imeyili ngemuva kokufika eSingapore.Uyitholile incwadi yokwesula kumengameli kusukela ngoJulayi 14.

Ngaphansi komthethosisekelo waseSri Lanka, uma umengameli esula esikhundleni, uNdunankulu uRanil Wickremesinghe uba ngumengameli wesikhashana kuze kube iphalamende likhetha ozongena esikhundleni.

I-Associated Press ibike ukuthi iSenethi izokwamukela ukuqokwa kukamongameli kuze kube nguNovemba 19, kanti ukhetho lukamongameli luzoba ngoNovemba 20. UScott unethemba lokuthi uzoqoka umholi omusha lingakapheli isonto.

U-Wickremesinghe, owazalwa ngo-1949, ube ngumholi we-National Unity Party (UNP) yaseSri Lanka kusukela ngo-1994. U-Wickremesinghe uqokwe njengondunankulu kanye nongqongqoshe wezeziMali nguMongameli uRajapaksa ngoMeyi 2022, ihlandla lesine lakhe njengondunankulu.

U-Wickremesinghe umemezele ukuzimisela kwakhe ukwehla esikhundleni ngesikhathi kumiswa uhulumeni omusha ngemuva kokushiswa komuzi wakhe emibhikishweni eminingi emelene nohulumeni ngoJulayi 9.

UMengameli waseSri Lanka uMahinda Rajapaksa utshele uSomlomo wePhalamende ukuthi uNdunankulu uRanil Wickremesinghe useqokwe njengomengameli wesikhashana, iReuters icaphune ihhovisi likaSomlomo lisho lokhu ngemuva kokuhamba kwakhe ngoLwesine.

AbakwaReuters bathi amalungu eqembu elibusayo eSri Lanka "akweseka kakhulu" ukuqokwa kuka-Wickremesinghe njengomengameli, kuyilapho ababhikishi bephikisana nokuqokwa kwakhe njengomengameli wesikhashana, bemsola ngenkinga yomnotho.

Ababili abazongenela ukhetho lobumongameli kuze kube manje ngu-Wickremesinghe kanye nomholi weqembu eliphikisayo uSagit Premadasa, kusho abezindaba ze-IANS e-India ngaphambilini.

UPremadasa, ohlulwe okhethweni lukamongameli lwango-2019, uthe ngoMsombuluko kulindeleke ukuthi aqokwe njengomengameli futhi usekulungele ukubuyela ekhaya ayosungula uhulumeni omusha futhi avuselele umnotho wezwe.I-UNITED National Force yakhe, okungelinye lamaqembu amakhulu aphikisayo ephalamende, yazuza izihlalo ezingama-54 kwezingama-225 okhethweni lwasephalamende lwango-Agasti 2020.

Mayelana nokukhethwa kukandunankulu, ithimba labezindaba likaWickremesinghe likhiphe isitatimende ngoLwesithathu lithi, “UNdunankulu kanye noMengameli wesikhashana u-Wickremesinghe utshele uSomlomo u-Abbewardena ukuthi aqoke undunankulu owamukelekayo kuhulumeni kanye nabaphikisayo.”

“Kube nokuzola” enhlokodolobha yaseSri Lankan eColombo njengoba ababhikishi abebengene ezakhiweni zikahulumeni behoxa ngoMsombuluko ngemuva kokuthi uMahinda Rajapaksa ememezele ngokusemthethweni ukuthi uyasula esikhundleni kanti amasosha axwayisa ngokuthi izwe lisasele “liyimpuphu,” kubika i-AP.