Macedonia´s ethnic Albanian opposition party said yesterday it would walk out of parliament after a brawl between one its deputies and an MP from a rival Albanian party.
A brawl between a deputy of the Democratic Party of Albanians (DPA) and his rival from the junior ruling party, the Democratic Union for Integration (DUI), erupted at a committee session discussing the government´s budget.
Rexhail Ismaili of the DUI was slightly injured in a fist fight with DPA´s Orhan Ibrahimi, while several other MPs joined the brawl, parliamentary officials said.
Representatives of both parties blamed each other for the incident that followed verbal insults between them over alleged failure to protect interests of Macedonia’s ethnic Albanian minority.