Colombo : Sri Lankan Parliament is scheduled to convene for the first time on Tuesday, since the public protests, with Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena presiding to conduct a vote to determine which party holds the absolute majority of 113 seats in the 225-member assembly.

People intensified the protest, carrying signs and shouting slogans against Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and demand that Rajapaksa family politicians step down.

Sri Lanka's parliament will meet on Tuesday after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa dissolved it.

The country of 22 million people has been suffering from a shortages of food, fuel and prolonged power cuts lasting up to 13 hours, triggered by a lack of foreign exchange that has stalled imports.

Opposition parties and even members of Rajapaksa's ruling alliance rejected the move for a unity government, setting the stage for a test of strength in parliament.

In a wave of unprecedented spontaneous demonstrations across Sri Lanka, including large gatherings in the commercial capital Colombo, protesters have called for Rajapaksa and members of his powerful ruling family to resign. His brother, Mahinda Rajapaksa, is the prime minister.