Skopje, 27 May 2023 (MIA) – Prime Minister Dimitar Kovachevski said Saturday that as of Monday the government will review the draft-initiative on constitutional amendments prepared by the working group.

PM Kovachevski also said that he would invite VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski to a meeting in the next ten days to discuss taking decisions necessary for North Macedonia’s European integration and harmonizing the views on the relations with the neighbouring countries.

While visiting the Clinical Centre in Skopje, he told reporters that he expects that as of Monday the draft-initiative on constitutional amendments, adopted by the working group, to be reviewed at a government's session.

“The government will review draft-initiative with great attention considering that professors of constitutional law, representatives from the constitutional law practice and representatives of political parties participated in the preparation of the proposal and then according to the procedure after the government consider and adopt it, will forward it to the parliament, because this is currently the most significant process in the country,” Kovachevski said.

Asked if the Albanian parties would support the proposal considering their request to remove "20 percent" from the Constitution and to be written the Albanian language, Kovachevski said that very clear messages came from the EU representatives and that he believed that not only them, but also all parties in the Parliament will support the proposal.

The goal, as he reminded, is for the state to continue towards the fulfilment of its second strategic goal after joining NATO, which is joining the EU, which is not a process of one person and one party, but for all political parties and all citizens.

“All political parties should be aware that this is a process for the sake of EU integration, and in fact very clear messages were sent yesterday by US Senator Chris Murphy, who said that the political parties in the country should already be determined, whether they are for the EU or for NATO and the USA, or part of them, will want to remain hostages of Dimitar Apasiev and Russia,” Kovachevski noted.

Commenting on the statements by VMRO-DPMNE that they will not support constitutional amendments and his alleged resignation, the Prime Minister repeated that these are fictions of the leader of this party, Hristijan Mickoski, stressing that the only one who said he would resign was Mickoski himself.