I think that this legal solution, which I fully support, provides a framework in which we will have fair representation. The law received all positive recommendations from the Venice Commission and its constitutionality is not in question,
Macedonian Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski said in MRT1’s Open Studio, marking two years of the Government’s term.
“There is a deadline for the development of by-laws that will define the mechanism of fair representation, there is a body that will monitor this within the Government and when all of this is analyzed, it is a completely constitutional process. It is extremely important that we all have a political consensus when making such decisions and that we build it on stable foundations so that we do not have any frictions in the future, neither ethnically nor legally,” Mickoski said in response to the host’s question.
Regarding the accusations that the Government has abolished the balancer as a tool for fair representation of ethnic communities, he said that there is a biased public that is trying to politicize and radicalize it for the sake of political points and political gain.
“I cannot accept that. These are political parties in the opposition that were in the Government for a long time and a few years ago at a government session they reached a conclusion in which they said that the use of the balancer as a tool is over, that it has outlived its time and that such a way of fair representation should be abandoned,” added PM Mickoski.
