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Madagascar parliament impeaches President

Xinhua, May 27, 2015 Adjust font size:

Madagascar's parliament impeached President Hery Rajaonarimampianina early Wednesday morning for alleged violation of constitution and incompetence.

Among the parliament members, 121 voted "yes" to the impeachment of President Hery Rajaonarimampianina while only four voted no, the speaker of the national assembly, Jean Max Rakotomamonjy, said at the end of the voting.

The parliament has 151 seats and the impeachment should be voted by the two-thirds of the parliament members before being accepted.

The result will be sent to the High Constitutional Court (HCC), which will judge if the president be impeached or not.

But Toto Marie Lydia, a parliament member from Ambositra, a city in central Madagascar, complained that there were only around 100 parliament members during the voting, but the official result said 125 members participated in voting.

Several hours before the voting, the U.S. Embassy in Madagascar called on the Malagasy parliament members to keep political stability in the country.

President Hery Rajaonarimampianina was impeached by the parliament because he signed early this month a resolution of national conference on national reconciliation. This resolution asked the dissolution of institutions including the national assembly.

Rajaonarimampianina took function as Madagascar's president on Jan. 25, 2014 following a presidential election in December 2013, which was hailed as democratic by the international community after a five-year political crisis in the country.

The island nation had been plunged into chaos in 2009 when Rajaonarimanpianina's predecessor Marc Ravalomanana was ousted in a coup. Endite