The controversial law on the legalization of illegally constructed buildings in North Macedonia will enter the procedure in the Parliament on the 8th of June. When President Stevo Pendarovski didn’t sign the law and it was returned to the Parliament with several objections, the parliamentary speaker Talat Xhaferi stated he is obliged to return the law in the agenda for the third reading in a period of 30 days after it was adopted.
The law which will allow the legalization of the illegally constructed buildings, according to the regulations, will not be discussed by competent commissions, but in a plenary session. As was explained by Xhaferi, the government can send a draft complementary law while the MPs can submit amendments only regarding the articles of the law for which amendments were adopted during a second reading.
North Macedonia’s Parliament will adopt the law with 61 votes in favor of it, and if it wins the necessary majority, then, President Pendarovski will be obliged to sign the decree in order to enter into force.
Despite President Pendarovski’s objections, the new law on legalization was fiercely criticized by construction professionals, environmentalists, and activists.
The state commission for the prevention of corruption organized a public debate where most of the experts, environmentalists and activists have requested significant amendments to the law or its withdrawal from a parliamentary procedure.
