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Albania’s highest court revokes lawmakers' decision to sack president

FILE PHOTO: Albanian President Ilir Meta delivers a speech during a news conference in Tirana, Albania June 10, 2019. REUTERS/Florion Goga/File Photo

Albania’s constitutional court has revoked parliament's vote to sack President Ilir Meta for allegedly advocating violence and violating the constitution.

In June, some 104 lawmakers in the 140-seat parliament, mainly from the ruling Socialist Party of Prime Minister Edi Rama, voted to dismiss Meta but according to the law, the Constitutional Court had to have the final say.

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