Skopje, 26 October 2023 (MIA) - Prime Minister Dimitar Kovachevski said in Parliament on Thursday that elections in the country are announced by the Parliament Speaker according to deadlines determined by law and the mandate of the elected officials.

“When we talk about elections, you have to remember at that time that elections were organized as it happened to find the political circumstance of your party, and that's why parliamentary elections were held nearly every year or every two years, and it used to happen that when one election ended in a year, there would be another election in a few months,” Kovachevski said answering a question from VMRO-DPMNE’s MP Bojan Stojanoski in regard to the elections.

Kovachevski noted in the Ministry of Justice there is a working group in which representatives from political parties except VMRO-DPMNE participate, where amendments to the Electoral Code are being prepared in accordance with the recommendations of the OSCE/ODIHR.

“I do not know for which purpose. It is probably a legacy of the approach that your party had during the mentioned 11 years when institutions, system and laws were derogated from and when political will led to conclusions, processes that were implemented. There the changes are being made according to the OSCE/ODIHR recommendations and I hope you will send representatives to look at them and give their comments,” Kovachevski said.

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