VMRO-DPMNE will actively participate in the debate on the constitutional amendments. The party’s new parliamentary group coordinator, Nikola Micevski, said on Tuesday that VMRO-PDMNE would just debate and not file amendments at the current stage. The ruling coalition is calm. In its view, VMRO-DPMNE wouldn’t be able stop the constitutional change through filibustering even if it wanted to. The debate ...

The Government has included the following demands by the eight MPs from the independent parliamentary group of VMRO-DPMNE and its coalition in the draft amendments: a guarantee for strengthening the Macedonian identity, a gradual change of the name for internal use and annulment of the constitutional changes if the name deal isn’t ratified by Greece. Friday saw the eight politicians ...