Speaker Afrim Gashi survived the vote to oust him as Parliament Speaker, with 21 MPs voting for his dismissal and 72 voting against, with no abstentions, during the no-confidence vote held in Parliament on Tuesday evening.
MPs from the Parliament majority made out of VMRO-DPMNE, the Worth It coalition and the ZNAM Movement voted against the no-confidence motion submitted by Levica. Levica and SDSM lawmakers voted for Gashi’s ouster. Speaking ahead of the vote, Gashi said the motion of no-confidence was politically motivated and based on Islamophobia and Albanophobia.
