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Junior coalition ally holding up waste import bill

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Ilir Meta, the leader of Albania's Socialist Movement for Integration Party. (Photo: Archives).
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TIRANA, Dec.13 – Albania’s Socialist Movement for Integration party is still refusing to back the waste import bill. President Bujar Nishani vetoed the bill and sent it back to parliament, but the Assembly violated its internal regulation by not reviewing the president’s decree within the next eight weeks. Speaker of the parliament and chairman of the junior coalition party, Ilir Meta said Tuesday that the waste bill must be subject to additional consultations. Meta admitted that voting in favor of the bill was a rushed move due to an “irresponsible political will and lack of know-how.” “Often, decision making processes…

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