(AP-ANSA) - TIRANA - Albania's prime minister says he will
take over the foreign ministry himself after the country's
president refused to accept his nominee for the post. Edi Rama
on Monday tweeted that he will keep the post, and also
threatened to take President Ilir Meta to the Constitutional
Court.
Meta did not approve Rama's nominee, saying he does not meet
standards, and also has not accepted the removal of the previous
minister, without explaining why. Rama reshuffled his Cabinet
last December, removing seven ministers out of 15 posts
following a students' protest and complaints of corruption and
inefficiency from the opposition. Meta, the former leader of a
minor left-wing party once in coalition with Rama's leftist
Socialists, has been continuously hampering the prime minister's
Cabinet reshuffles and law approvals. (AP-ANSA)
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