Constitutional Court Abolishes Balancer Tool

At its session on Wednesday, the Constitutional Court abolished the Balancer tool regulating employment of members of different ethnic communities in the public sector. The decision will not apply retroactively.

As the Court’s President, Darko Kostadinovski, stated, the decision was based only on a constitutional-legal analysis. In that regard, he called for there to be no labelling of it from an ethnic, political or any other standpoint. The decision was made by a majority vote, Kostadinovski also stressed.

The same day, VLEN said there would soon be a draft-law on equitable representation. Its Parliamentary Group Coordinator, Halil Snopce, said that it would be submitted regardless of the Court’s decision.

Prior to the Constitutional Court’s decision, the Minister of Digital Transformation, Stefan Andonovski, had explained that with or without the tool, the Government would remain focused on equitable representation in the administration sector because that was a constitutional category.

“I expect an agreement within the Government that would result in a solution that would frame equitable representation in a law,” he pointed out.