Skopje, 27 August 2024 (MIA) – Parliament Speaker Afrim Gashi said Tuesday the no confidence motion against him lacks political arguments.

Referring to recent media reports about him and the allegations included in the no confidence motion, Gashi said he hadn’t violated the country’s secularity and he hadn’t told anyone to breach international or domestic laws.

“I’ve never told anyone to break any law,” he told a press briefing, the first one since taking office, when asked about the airport incident involving the Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani and his private trip to Kosovo using official state vehicles.

At the press briefing, Speaker Gashi also spoke about the constitutional changes, upcoming Parliament activities, etc.

The no confidence motion is set to be discussed at a September 3 session in Parliament.  The Levica parliamentary group in early August initiated the no-confidence motion against Parliament Speaker Afrim Gashi for "unprincipled" conduct in office, giving seven arguments, elaborated on ten pages, on why he should be removed from his post.

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