Sri Lanka’s opposition leader, who is seeking the presidency next week, vowed Friday to “listen to the people” who are struggling through the island nation’s worst economic crisis and to hold accountable the president who fled under pressure from protesters. In an interview with The Associated Press from his office in the capital, Colombo, Sajith Premadasa said that if he wins the election in parliament, he would ensure that “an elective dictatorship never, ever occurs” in Sri Lanka. "You cannot have rule of the jungle. You have to follow constitutional, democratic, judicial, administrative procedures. And we, as promoters of system change, must ensure that we bring in legislation, regulations, ordinances that cleanses the system," he said.