quorum

Parliament did not have a quorum when it began its session to vote on Zandanshatar's removal, the president's office said.

An August referendum on restarting the reactor, held just three months after it closed, failed to attract a quorum, though the yes votes outweighed the noes.

Frey, he said, had asked his delegates to leave in order to deny quorum.

A lack of quorum has led to the cancellation of roughly a third of its meetings this year.

“Tools, whether legal or political, for eliminating quorum breaks may exist,” they wrote.