SMI takes opposition “role” on Parliament voting
16/03/2017 00:00
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Parliament Speaker Ilir Meta had to postpone for more than an hour voting for the discharge of the Head of Financial Monitoring Authority, Enkelejda Shehi. And even when the minimum quorum of 75 MPs was reached, Socialist Party members were surprised to see they secured only 55 votes in favor.
The magical number of 71 votes was not achieved, even though in many cases in the past left coalition had gathered 88 votes.
After Speaker Meta invited MPs for a secret voting, 20 of them voted against. These votes seem to come from Socialist Movement for Integretion MPs who had previously expressed their discordance in Shehi’s discharge. Two of them, Spartak Braho and Gjovalin Kadeli publicly admitted their vote against.
Opposition absence in the fourth Parliament session in a raw has proved again a test for the majority, in a time when SMI has started voting against socialists’ decisions, even though this time it was a secret voting.
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