Former President of Sri Lanka calls for new elections as the country's economic crisis worsens.

 Sri Lanka is experiencing its worst economic crisis since independence, with food and fuel shortages, skyrocketing prices, and power outages affecting a large number of people.

Colombo: Former Sri Lanka President and chairman of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) Maithripala Sirisena called for fresh elections in the country on Sunday, speaking at a May Day rally organised by his party in Polonnaruwa.

Sirisena said that politicians should take the side of the people at a time when the country is facing a great tragedy, and that he took to the streets on International Labor Day to do so, according to Colombo Page.

"I, too, took to the streets because this government refuses to leave, even when people from the country's wealthiest to innocent suffering farmers and public servants took to the streets and demanded that the government leave." I would like to form a new government in the country. We will do so.