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2nd LD Writethru: Madagascar's president deplores impeachment against him

Xinhua, May 27, 2015 Adjust font size:

Madagascar's President Hery Rajaonarimampianina deplored an impeachment by the parliament on Wednesday.

Speaking in an national address, the president argued that the process and the transparency were not respected during the parliament's voting.

He added that only 80 members attended the voting instead of 125 as claimed by the parliament speaker.

"Fortunately that there is a court to judge it," said Rajaonarimampianina, referring to the High Constitutional Court (HCC) which will judge if the president be impeached or not.

The president also denied in his speech that he planned to dissolve the parliament.

"I have the power to dissolve the parliament but I never said that I will dissolve it," he said.

According to the speaker, 121 parliament members voted yes to the impeachment of the president on early Wednesday morning.

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

The voting result will be sent to HCC late Wednesday. Endi