Draft-Initiative for Constitutional Changes Delivered to Government

The press service of the Government of North Macedonia reported that they have received the draft-initiative for constitutional changes created by the Working Group on Constitutional Changes. The draft-initiative was first sent to the Ministry of Justice, which after analysing and approving it, forwarded it to the government. From the governmental press service, they inform that the draft-initiative will be put up on the daily order on some of the following sessions of the government. The text for constitutional changes contains proposes change to the text of the preamble of the Constitution, as well as of Amendment 34 which replaces Article 49 and Amendments 2, where after the words ‘… Bosnian people,’ there will be the addition of the words ‘Bulgarian people, Croatian people, Montenegrin people, Slovenian people, Jewish people, Egyptian people’. VMRO-DPMNE Leader Hristijan Mickoski reiterated the positions of his party that their MPs will not support the constitutional changes in the Parliament. In meantime, former Defence Minister and Former Vice-president of SDSM Radmila Sekerinska said that there should also be understanding for the citizens that oppose the changes.