The people have spoken - Sri Lanka

Some good news - from Reuters:

Sri Lanka president to step down, parliamentary speaker says, amid storm of protests
Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will step down next Wednesday, the country's parliamentary speaker said on Saturday, bowing to popular pressure after a day of violent protests in which demonstrators stormed the president's official residence and set fire to the prime minister's home in Colombo.

Rest of the story is behind a paywall so...  No word as to who will replace him - another Marxist tyrant wannabe or maybe a duly elected representative of the general population?

Hope springs eternal but not holding my breath...