LDP Claims There’s Opportunity for Constitution Changes to Enter into Force once Membership Comes

LDP leader Monika Zajkova supports the stand that the constitutional changes should enter into force once North Macedonia joins the EU. In her view, that is the chance for a way out of the integration impasse.

Her party believes that the 2022 Conclusions don’t say anywhere that the changes are required to enter into force immediately, which leaves room for free interpretation of Items 4 and 6, which, in turn, enables North Macedonia’s legislators to determine when they will enter into force.

The whole procedure, according to LDP, can and needs to be considered finished with the adoption itself of the changes and constitutional law, in which there will be a transitional provision stating that they will enter into force once Bulgaria’s Parliament or the legislative houses of all EU members ratify the country’s accession agreement.

Both sides, Zajkova assesses, need to accept the opportunity offered by the law and diplomacy in order for the EU path of Skopje to resume.