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Vetting bill lost in translation

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TIRANA, Dec. 1 – Albania’s main opposition Democratic Party believes that the highly debated vetting bill sent for review at the Venice Commission has not been translated accurately. Therefore, it plans to ask the Constitutional Court to seek a new opinion from the Venice Commission based on a new and better translated version of the draft. At a meeting of the Democratic Party Parliamentary Group, the leader of the opposition, Lulzim Basha, highlighted some of the mistakes he noted at the document which was sent to the Venice Commission and explained that provisions in the document are not accurate. Basha…

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