{"id":16996,"date":"2021-07-07T16:25:50","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T14:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=16996"},"modified":"2021-07-08T00:01:21","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T22:01:21","slug":"lushnja-mayor-officially-discharged-and-is-now-facing-corruption-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/lushnja-mayor-officially-discharged-and-is-now-facing-corruption-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Lushnja mayor officially discharged and is now facing corruption charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former mayor of Lushnje, Fatos Tushe, has been formally discharged earlier today, with a verdict approved by the government.<\/p>\n<p>Tushe was arrested yesterday, after an ongoing police operation and is now facing accusations of \u201cabuse of office and misuse of administrative resources\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The official document released by the government on his dismissal, states that Tushe was removed from office \u201cdue to serious violations\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Before running for mayor in Lushnja back in 2011, Fatos Tushe served as MP in the Albanian parliament, representing Fier as a member of the Socialist Party. In 2011, he resigned from his parliamentary duties in order to run for mayor.<\/p>\n<p>His dismissal orders came into force immediately.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/07\/06\/basha-comments-mayors-arrest-coming-after-our-countless-denunciations-it-could-be-a-good-start\/\">Basha comments mayor\u2019s arrest: Coming after our countless denunciations, it could be a good start<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/07\/06\/mayor-of-lushnja-put-under-arrest-following-operation-carried-out-by-spak\/\">Mayor of Lushnja put under arrest following police operation ordere by SPAK<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/07\/06\/arrest-of-lushnjes-mayor-pm-rama-sp-doesnt-cover-for-anyone\/\">\u2018SP doesn\u2019t cover for anyone,\u2019 says PM Rama after arrest of Lushnje mayor<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former mayor of Lushnje, Fatos Tushe, has been formally discharged earlier today, with a verdict approved by the government. Tushe was arrested yesterday, after an ongoing police operation and is now facing accusations of \u201cabuse of office and misuse of administrative resources\u201d. The official document released by the government on his dismissal, states that Tushe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":16997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lushnja mayor officially discharged and is now facing corruption charges - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/lushnja-mayor-officially-discharged-and-is-now-facing-corruption-charges\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lushnja mayor officially discharged and is now facing corruption charges - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former mayor of Lushnje, Fatos Tushe, has been formally discharged earlier today, with a verdict approved by the government. 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