Tag: amendments

Instead of at end of May, as previously planned, United Nations' Office for Project Services (UNOPS) informed that the release of the analysis on the implementation of  the Law on Civil Liability for Insult and Defamation shall be postponed for late September, Justice Ministry informs. After the release of the analysis by the expert author, in autumn, working group will...

Amendments from 33 to 36, together with Constitutional Law on their proclamation, which were voted in with 81 votes, were adopted at the 75th session of Parliament, on Friday, and were published in the 6th issue of the "Official Gazette" this year, i.e. on January 12, 2019. With these amendments to the Constitution, after the Prespa Agreement comes into force,...

With 81 votes in favor and no votes against or withheld, this evening, MPs have cast their votes at Parliament i.e. the amendments from 33 to 35, which are Macedonia's obligation according to the Prespa Agreement that was signed on the 17th of June last year. Previously, the Alliance of the Albanians and BESA's MPs withdrew their amendments. According to Constitutional...

At today's session, the Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia has passed the amendments in the Law for mineral raw materials that will ban all future mines of metallic raw materials the use of cyanide and sulfuric acid as part of the technological processes of flotation or other processing of the ore. This legal change that doesn't apply for...

The Parliamentary Committee regarding the Political system has adopted the amendments regarding the Criminal Code as proposed by a group of MPs from the ruling majority party, in particular in reference to Article 275-v on the length of the sentence. Adopting the amendments to the Criminal Code, in Article 275- v, prison sentences for acts related to the misuse of...

The Parliament has received seven amendments of the draft-amendments of the Constitution where two were lodged by the Alliance of the Albanians, one from Besa, one from SDSM's MP, Muhamed Zekiri and three from the VMRO-DPMNE's independent MP group and the coalition. Only the MP groups of the opposition party VMRO-DPMNE, nor SDSM's or DUI's MP groups hadn't lodged...

At yesterday's 108th session, the Government adopted the final texts of the amendments to the Constitution and immediately passed them on to Parliament. Amendment 33 reads as follows: "In the Constitution, the words" Republic of Macedonia " will be replaced by the words "Republic of North Macedonia ", and the word "Macedonia" shall be replaced with the words "North Macedonia", except...

Russia's foreign minister Sergey Lavrov in an interview with the Greek daily newspaper "Ekathiremini", today announced that he blamed the United States an the EU for brutal systematic interference in the internal affairs of Macedonia. In that context, he said that "On October 19, "Parliament passed a resolution on constitutional changes by blackmailing and bribing MPs from the opposition in...

The government has announced that starting from today, it will begin organizing a series of public discussions both with experts and the general public about the draft-amendments about the changes in the Constitution. The first public discussion will take place today with a start at 16h at the government's hall. the attendees will be addressed by Prime Minister Zoran...

The Commission for Constitutional Affairs has adopted the fourth draft of amendments over the weekend, which ended the debate on the draft amendments to the Constitution, in accordance with the Prespa Agreement, between Macedonia and Greece.The draft amendments will be reviewed at a plenary session on December 1st, 2018. The Commission began the debate on the amendments on November 7th and...

At its 100th session, on the proposal of the Ministry of Finance, the Government reviewed and adopted the amendments to the budget re-balance for 2018 which was proposed at a commission hearing in Parliament. "The eight amendments from the Government session were accepted as an addition to the proposal for amendments to the budget for 2018, and the new, integral...

Through an inclusive and transparent process, the Government has drafted four draft amendments to amend the Constitution in accordance with the Prespa Agreement, announced Prime Minister Zoran Zaev at a the press conference in Government. "The first amendment will be the replacement of the name Macedonia, with Northern Macedonia throughout the Constitution, except for Article 36, where there is a...

Today, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said that there is no need to further open Pandora's Box, while commenting on moves made by the Albanian opposition - the BESA wing led by Bilal Kasami and the Albanian Alliance, who submitted draft amendments to the Constitution that will result in Macedonia strictly being defined as a civil state, and the Albanian...

The parliamentary plenary session for the Government's proposal for constitutional changes which transpired from the Agreement with Greece has begun. The government's proposal for constitutional changes will be clarified by Prime Minister Zoran Zaev. MPs from VMRO-DPMNE are present at the session, including former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, who after asking for today's hearing of the SPO's "TNT" case be postponed, could attend the...

Today, the Government will hold an emergency session at 16 o'clock. The only item on the agenda will be:  Proposal for accession to the amendment of the Constitution of the Republic of Macedonia, with directions for amending and supplementing the Constitution of the Republic of Macedonia. For now, it is unknown whether the Government has secured a two-thirds majority in...

Yesterday, the Council of Europe issued a public warning on its platform for the protection of journalism and the safety of journalists, regarding several amendments to the Electoral Code which could jeopardize the work and freedom of the media in Macedonia. The warning says that the Macedonian state is the source of such a threat to the freedom of...

Parliament has voted on the referendum over the name that will be of a consultative nature and will be held on September 30, with 68 votes in favor and no votes against. The ballot question will be: Are you for EU and NATO membership by accepting the Agreement between the Republic of Macedonia and the Republic of Greece. The parliamentary...

This afternoon, without explanation or discussion, Parliament has chosen the new structure for the State Election Commission (SEC) and the amendments to the laws that were agreed at leaders’ meeting on Monday. The SEC’s members were elected with 100 votes "for" without anyone reported. Oliver Derkovski from VMRO-DPMNE has been chosen to be the chairman of the Commission, and as vice-president...

The Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia did not hold a session which was announced yesterday, where leaders were meant to agree on the election of members of the State Election Commission, amendments to the laws for financing political parties and to organize future technical governments before elections in accordance with the Przino principle. The Parliamentary Committee on Elections and...

The Minister of Information Society and Administration, Damjan Manchevski, today at a press conference in the Government asked the Parliamentary Committee on Transport, Communications and Environment, chaired by VMRO-DPMNE, to work continuously on a daily basis, until the amendment debate on the Draft Law on Audio and Audiovisual Media Services has ended. He said that the opposition should think about...