Skopje, 5 October 2023 (MIA) - Prime Minister Dimitar Kovachevski said Thursday there is a possibility for a meeting with leaders of all political parties, considering that decisions related to elections are consensual, and noted that the polls would be held in the regular slot. However, he added there is a much more important process than elections - taking decisions that ensure the country's continued Euro-integration path, MIA reports from Granada.

"We can schedule a Parliament session next Monday, adopt the constitutional amendments and schedule early elections on the same day. There is another proposal on the table - to start the process of constitutional changes, VMRO-DPMNE to join the government as they requested, finish the screening, open the chapters within the first cluster, close one or two chapters and then hold the presidential and parliamentary elections," PM Kovachevski told reporters regarding the demand of VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski for a leaders' meeting that would produce a date for snap elections.

Kovachevski said the parliamentary and the presidential elections are defined by law, everything else "is only talk by some who want to grab power without a political programme".

On the Electoral Code amendments, the PM said a working group chaired by a former State Election Commission president has been drafting the changes.

"This working group includes representatives of all political parties, except VMRO-DPMNE. They were invited to take part and even offered to chair the group, but they refused," said Kovachevski.

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