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VMRO-DPMNE demands NGOs do not give recommendations to AAVMU and MRT council members

The parliamentary Committee on Transport, Communications and Environment held the fourth continuation of the amendment debate on the Bill on Amending the Law on Audio and Audiovisual Media Services today, which is in second reading. VMRO-DPMNE’s fifth amendment was up for discussion, which requires the deletion of the paragraph of the bill that obliges the candidates for members of...

All amendments for the Law on Languages have now been translated

All amendments submitted for the Law on Languages have now been translated, reported the Office of Parliamentary Speaker, Talat Xhaferi. They reported that the amendments to the Law on Languages have now been archived, processed and posted to the e-parliament, and that the Translation Department had translated all submitted amendments. "The Parliament Speaker’s Office acted within its jurisdiction, and did so until the...

Xhaferi: So far 17.000 amendments have been translated, submitted to block progress

Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi says that up until now, 17,000 amendments have been translated, out of the 35,569 amendments that the opposition submitted for the Law on the Use of Languages. "There are members who have about 300 amendments, such as the case of Article 5, which will take time to be translated. It is obvious that this is a...

A new effort for a parliamentary debate about the Law on languages

Today at noon, the 32nd session will continue at the Parliament where the 8th item on the agenda will be the discussion about the Law on languages. The Parliament's President, Talat Xhaferri skipped this item yesterday because, as he said, the technical conditions were not met for the discussion. He informed that the parliamentary services didn't process and translate...

VMRO-DPMNE to return to Parliament to prevent the adoption of the Law on Languages

The VMRO-DPMNE parliamentary group will return to the parliamentary benches and with amendments to try and stop the adoption of the Law on the use of Languages, said the party's vice-president Mitko Janchev at a press conference. “The proponents want to push the unconstitutional law on bilingualism by force, and it is not only detrimental to VMRO-DPMNE, but to the...

Besa will no longer participate in the debate for the Law on Languages as it was a “political theatre”

Besa's MPs will not participate in the amendment debate on the Law on the Use of Languages, because what is happening in Parliament. They have called what is happening a "political theatre". - We will not participate in the work of the Commission, because we believe that this theatre will continue and we do not intend to participate in that...

Besa asks that the Law on Languages be changed to the “Law on the Albanian Language”

The President of the Committee on European Affairs Artan Grubi, stopped the debate on the draft Law on the Use of Languages, because MP Fadil Zendeli from the Besa Movement did not want to leave the parliamentary rostrum after Grubi did not give him the floor to speak. Through the amendment, Besa requested that the title of the law be...

The Committee’s debate about the law on languages was postponed since no representatives of the Ministry of Justice was present

The debate about the amendments to the draft bill for the use of languages that was supposed to start at the Parliament's Committee for European Issues was postponed, because, as was announced by the Committee's President, Artan Grubi, the absence of representatives from the Ministry of Justice. As was announced by Grubi, he received a notification from the Minister...

The debate about the amendments has ended and the budget is returned at the government from where it will be sent to the Parliament

The Committee on Finance and Budget has completed the amendment discussion about the draft-budget for 2018. Today's debate was the third continuation of the 12th session that began on the 27th of November, and the Committee's debate about the draft-bill, that was re-scheduled several times and postponed as well, in order to be finished on the 8th day out...

Two amendments by VMRO-DPMNE were accepted at the Committee’s budget debate

During the debate about the draft-budget for 2018, the MPs have accepted two amendments submitted by VMRO-DPMNE who didn't participate in the today's debate while 8 eight were rejected. The accepted amendments contain a modified text and refer to subventions for pellet stoves and the TIR zone in Kumanovo. According to SDSM's MP, Jovan Mitrevski, the acceptance of these...

The debate of the Committee about the budget was postponed for the fifth time

The first continuation of the 12th session of the Committee on Finances and Budget, that was supposed to resume today at 11 o'clock was postponed for the fifth time. "The continuation of the 12th session of the Committee on Finance and Budget, at which a debate about the draft-budget for 2018 was taking place and was set for today...

According to the new package of laws, police work will now be controlled by the Prosecution

The Ministry of Justice has begun preparing a package of amendments in several laws that should provide external independent control over the work of the police. According to the announcement published today, the amendments will be made in the Laws for the Public Prosecutor's Office, the Public Prosecution, the Council of Public Prosecutors and the Criminal Code. Preparations for the changes...

Preparations have begun on the Law on Witness Protection which the SPO have been asking for

Yesterday, the Ministry of Justice started the procedure for the preparation of the amendments to the Law on Witness Protection, which will give the Special Prosecutor’s Office the juridstiction to participate in the witness protection procedure, that is, to request and propose protection of certain witnesses when it is necessary for an investigation. This is also the main purpose for...

The use of rubber bullets will be terminated as new amendments are being prepared to the Law on Police

The Ministry of Interior is preparing amendments to the Law on Police, which, among other things, will terminate the use of rubber bullets and electric paralysers for breaking up crowds and violent protests. Rubber bullets and electric paralysers became part of the police’s equipment with the amendments to the Law on Police, which Parliament voted in with 59 votes in...

Zvrlevski: Amendments are necessary to control wiretapping

The illegal wiretapping led to a great social crisis in the Republic of Macedonia, but this is not the first time monitoring systems have been abused in the country, stated the State Attorney General, Marko Zvrlevski at a conference on the topic “Monitoring Communications – Legal framework and the experiences of the Attorney General”, which is being held today...

Trajanov Brought Back the Laws on the SPO, To Give Time For Pressure On The EU and the USA

Submitting legislation for the Special Public Prosecutor’s Office (SPO) in Parliament as an ordinary procedure, opens the possibility of consultations and coordination between the parties in the home of legislation, but with the guarantors of the Pržino Agreement (The European Union and the United States etc.) about accepting the proposed changes. This is the main idea for having the...

Dutch Embassy: SPO Plays A Key Role, They Need Support From All Stakeholders

The Special Public Prosecution plays a key role in this process, it needs constant support from all parties, reacted the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands after Parliament did not approve amendments requested by the SPO in the laws on Witness Protection and the SPO they did not receive support from the ruling majority. “The Netherlands has always advocated for...

SPO: Without The Law On Witness Protection We Remain Unable To Work On Certain Cases

Without amendments to the Law on Witness Protection, it makes the work of the Special Public Prosecutor's Office difficult, said the SPO, after today's session of Parliament where the ruling majority did not support the proposed amendments to the SPO (for extending the time for investigations) and the Law on Witness Protection. "Without adopting changes to the Law on Witness...

Parliament votes on Laws agreed on in Pržino

This evening, the Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia, at their 113. session, voted on the amendments in a short procedure, for the Law on Internal Affairs,the Law on Audio and Audiovisual Media Service, the Law for Criminal Proceedings, The representatives from the political parties, signatories to the Pržino Agreement, agreed to the legislative amendments, in order to prepare for...

Today MPs will vote on the laws which were agreed by the four parties in Pržino

Parliament Speaker, Trajko Veljanoski has scheduled a session today at 14:30 where MPs will have to vote to pass the laws that the representatives of the four main political parties, signatories to the Pržino Agreement reached last week. On today’s agenda is the draft-law for amendments to the Law on Internal Affairs, the draft-law for amendments to the Law on...