Ilir Meta, the President of Albania, a country in Europe has been impeached by parliament for violating the constitution. This is coming after the country's
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Albania’s Parliament voted Wednesday to impeach President Ilir Meta, after the ruling Socialist Party accused him of meddling in the April 25 national election and violating the country’s constitution.
The issue goes now to the Constitutional Court, which will have the final say.
One hundred and four lawmakers voted in favor, seven against and three abstained in the Socialist-dominated legislature. Ninety-four votes, or two-thirds, were needed for the impeachment.
Some 30 years since the Balkan nation’s communist era came to an end, it is the first time that Albania’s Parliament has voted to impeach the president. Lawmakers followed an accelerated procedure to impeach after an ad hoc investigative commission worked for three weeks to conclude that Meta had committed impeachable offenses.
YEREVAN, JUNE 10, ARMENPRESS. Albania’s Parliament voted Wednesday to impeach President Ilir Meta, after the ruling Socialist Party accused him of meddling in the April 25 national election and violating the country’s constitution, Voice of America reports.
Albanian lawmakers voted on Wednesday in an extraordinary plenary session in Parliament to impeach President Ilir Meta, who has been accused of violating the country s constitution.
Forty-nine Socialist lawmakers set up a committee in late April to investigate Meta s activities during the April 25 general elections. According to the committee, Meta had seriously violated the constitution with his statements and actions.
On Wednesday, the head of the investigative committee, Socialist deputy Alket Islami, presented to lawmakers a 96-page final report drafted by the committee, saying that the president violated 17 articles of the constitution and that these violations are considered by the committee as grave.