he won the most parliamentary seats with 134 votes to 82 the deputies south asia bureau chief, amrita chima, is in colombo and has more on sir lancoste new president. he has been prime minister 6 times what he's never completed, his tenure. but now he's become the executive president, which makes him head a state head of government and head of the military. so there's an enormous power that key. the 1st one needs to recognize about him. he's a law and order. man. you know, we heard last week when they were protests and the board protest to an ugly. he do all the military restore law and order whatever it takes. then this week he declared a national emergency and you know what? shortly after he was elected in parliament, he went outside the parliament and spoke to the security forces, the armed forces, no security forces to pack them for what they were doing and said that they've kept the parliament safe during this time. and he hoped they would continue to do so to that's one thing. the 2nd thing about him, but he was not of a successful politician. many recognized that he's a good administ

they w, south asia bureau chief, amrita chima, is covering this story for she joins me from sher length as capital, colombo and rita. tell us more about what happened on that very site where you are . when this protest camp was broken up, anthony, we had have a dramatic, a night here in the heart of colombo, i'm standing in front of the presidential secretary where i've been reporting for the past week. and this was the hub of protest. in fact, it was the last bastion of protests in sight, a goblin property. protest had gone in, in the entrance of this building, and they will hold up there and were protesting. but then in the dark night and late at night, suddenly we had hundreds of soldiers and police commanders swarm around this area. there was an armored personnel carriers deployed there than soldiers came in here. and what they did was immediately cleared up these protest there, move the people out, and then this is a situation that we have now. barricades have been set up, police officers and the army have been deployed on the other side of the barricades, is the largest protest sc