WORLD NEWS: MADAGASCAR’S NATIONAL ASSEMBLY VOTES TO IMPEACH PRESIDENT
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Madagascar’s lower house of parliament voted Tuesday to impeach President Andry Rajoelina for desertion of duty, in a session dismissed by the presidency as “devoid of any legal basis”.
The resolution passed with 130 votes in favour well above the two-thirds constitutional threshold required in the 163-member chamber marking a forceful rebuke of the leader who has gone into hiding after weeks of street demonstrations over the island nation’s governance.
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