Skopje, 29 March 2023 (MIA) – A top priority in terms of constitutional amendments is a change in the Preamble, which would include all the smaller communities that show interest in it, but if the Constitution is opened then solutions should also be found to address all the gaps in it, for which a consensus will be needed, said Justice Minister Krenar Lloga said Wednesday after the meeting with the Austrian Minister of Justice Alma Zadić.

He urged VMRO-DPMNE party and its MPs to refer to all issues that they might have concerning the Constitution, noting that the door of the Ministry of Justice remains open to them.

Regarding the amendments to the Electoral Code, Lloga noted that the deadline left for VMRO-DPMNE to propose its representative in the working group remains until Friday.

Lloga welcomed today's election of new judges by the Judicial Council and announced that today the Ministry will submit to the Government a new draft law for the Academy of Judges and Public Prosecutors, which, he said, will improve its infrastructure.

Regarding the opinion of the Commission on the Use of Names in connection on name Tsar Boris III in the title of the association for promotion of cultural values of Macedonian Bulgarians "Tsar Boris III Ohrid", Lloga said that it has not yet been forwarded to the Ministry of Justice and once it is received, the Ministry will make a final decision.

The Commission considers that using such name in the association's title causes tensions and intolerance in the Macedonian society.

This figure is responsible for crimes committed during the Bulgarian occupation of Macedonia in World War II and the killing of hundreds of citizens. His collaboration and alliance with the Third Reich, as well as the accentuated anti-Semitic policy, resulted in the deportation and extermination of thousands of Jews from Macedonia in the Treblinka death camp, reads the Commission’s press release.