Sri Lanka opposition hopes to install new government amid turmoil

Sri Lanka’s opposition political parties will meet to agree on a new government a day after the country’s president and prime minister offered to resign in the wake of months of political turmoil (Eranga Jayawardena/AP)

Sri Lanka’s opposition political parties are meeting to agree on a new government a day after the country’s president and prime minister offered to resign in the wake of months of political turmoil.

Protesters who stormed the president’s official residence, his office and the prime minister’s official residence on Saturday spent the night there, saying they will stay until the leaders officially resign.