COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said on Wednesday he would appoint a new prime minister and cabinet this week, after former premier Mahinda Rajapaksa resigned following deadly violence in the country.
The new prime minister and cabinet will command a majority in the 225-seat parliament, Rajapaksa said.
(Reporting by Uditha Jayasinghe in Colombo and Munsif Vengattil in New Delhi, editing by Mark Heinrich)
