Balkans | The Ministry of Justice announced the names of those who participated in the working group on constitutional amendments

The Ministry of Justice of North Macedonia has announced the names of those who participated in the working group on constitutional amendments proposed by political parties and institutions in Parliament today.

The deadline set by the Ministry of Justice for institutions and political parties to nominate their representatives in the working group expired until 00:00 yesterday evening.

The Chairman and Vice President of the Turkish Democratic Party (TDP) will be represented in the Working Group on Constitutional Amendments, and the Turkish Action Party (THP) will be represented by the Director of the Communities Rights Implementation Agency (THGA), Eran Korteş.

In the working group, SDSM will be represented by Svetanka Ivanova, Democratic Union for Integration (BDI) Arber Adeyemi, Albanian Alliance Ramzi Mahmedi, and Democratic Party of Albania (PDSH) Ramitola Koki.

The institutions recommended Aleksander Spasov from the Presidential Cabinet of the Republic of North Macedonia, Dragan Telev from the Secretariat for European Affairs and Spend Siddiqui from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The main opposition party VMRO, which is staunchly opposed to the constitutional amendments, has announced that it will not join the DPMNE working group.

The Ministry of Justice stated that the experts who will participate in the working group to prepare the constitutional amendments will be announced by the end of the week.

The Bulgarian minority must be included in the constitution for the country’s accession process to the European Union to continue.