Albanian court overturns president’s impeachment

President Ilir Meta (Hektor Pustina/AP)

Albania’s Constitutional Court has overturned parliament’s impeachment of President Ilir Meta for allegedly inciting instability and showing bias before the country’s parliamentary election last year.

The court said in a ruling issued late on Wednesday that the evidence against Mr Meta did not amount to “a grave violation of the constitution”, which is a legal threshold for discharging a sitting president.