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21 08 2007 Skopje _ Macedonia’s parliament late on Monday endorsed the earlier decision of a parliamentary commission to strip the former prime minister, Vlado Buckovski, of his immunity, enabling the courts to issue him with a detention order.
Deputies of the main opposition Social Democratic Alliance of Macedonia, SDSM, formerly led by Buckovski, and the main ethnic Albanian opposition party, the DUI, boycotted the vote.
They objected to the August 2 decision of the parliamentary commission to strip Buckovski of his immunity; one said it was "absurd to put to vote a non-existent decision".
The previously disputed decision required the endorsement of a full session of parliament for the court to issue a detention order for Buckovski who was charged with involvement in an arms procurement scandal while serving as a defence minister in 2001.
Before the vote, the SDSM leader, Radmila Sekerinska, lashed out at the centre-right ruling VMRO-DPMNE government for waging what she called a "selective fight against corruption". Buckovski, prime minister from 2004 to 2006, has remained a member of parliament since then.
At the beginning of 2010 BIRN network published Digging Deeper - A Guide for Investigative Journalists in the Balkans, written in cooperation with Sheila Coronel, Director of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism and professor of professional practice at Columbia University, New York.
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