Skopje, 5 June 2024 (MIA) — Levica has said it would provide conditional support for the proposed amendments to the Law on the Organization and Operation of State Administration Bodies, which will make it possible to restructure government ministries and increase their number at the request of the new parliamentary majority coalition – but has also asked VMRO-DPMNE to accept changing the country's voting system into one based on a single electoral district.

"Levica is once again lending a helping hand to DPMNE so our MPs support these legal amendments, with a simple condition: Let's also adopt the law changing the electoral model and introduce one electoral district! Introducing a single electoral district in the Republic of Macedonia is necessary to equally value each citizen's vote," Levica's release says.

The political party points out that the OSCE mission had been recommending this electoral system for years in their reports. 

"This should not be a problem for DPMNE to accept, given that they announced this systemic solution in their election platform and pre-election promises," the release adds.

The Levica release also recalls that amendments to the Electoral Code were also submitted in the previous Parliament but not implemented due to ruling parties's coalitions with parties from the ethnic Albanian bloc, which, they said, "do not allow changes to this law be made due to nationalist motives and to devalue the votes of citizens from other ethnic communities." mr/