http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20220718-233507-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-people-vs-the-president/ The People vs The President - The Sri Lankan People’s Struggle to Reassert Constitutionalism Perera, Binendri eng 2022-07-18 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Constitutional Crisis Constitutional Moment Presidential Powers Presidentialism Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 Sri Lankan president Gotabhaya Rajapaksa finally resigned on 14 July 2022. The Speaker of the Sri Lankan Parliament confirmed the resignation on 15 July 2022. This is a tremendous victory for the people who have asserted their sovereignty through their daily activism. Recognizing the Sri Lankan crisis as a constitutional moment to introduce legal-political reforms is imperative to respond to the worst economic crisis the country has faced since independence and to engage with the diverse range of protestors within a constitutional-political framework.