Skopje, 25 June 2025 (MIA) - The bill on equitable ethnic representation ensures professionalism and competence of all citizens in Macedonia, Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski said after a visit to the Skopje's Children's Clinic on Wednesday. 

The PM noted that the equitable ethnic representation bill may be forwarded to the Venice Commission for an opinion as early as today, and then submitted to Parliament. 

"The Albanian opposition had the opportunity for more than 20 years to create a law that would ensure equitable ethnic representation, but they failed to do it. They created implants that ended in major abuses and fraud. That opposition, when it was in government at the time, said itself in a report that the time of the so-called 'Balancer' tool is over and should be replaced with a new way of ensuring equitable representation. But the credibility of those politicians, and especially for this law, has been reduced to zero," Mickoski pointed out. 

According to the PM, the goal of the new bill is to ensure professionalism, to be enforceable, and not politicized.

"Let's wait for the Venice Commission to deliver its opinion, and then all MPs will have the draft text and will be able to participate with amendments, and if the form is agreed, it will be voted on and then implemented. We want everything to be proper so that it is not politicized, so that a political issue is not created where there is no need for that. This is a bill that ensures professionalism and competence of all citizens in Macedonia," said PM Mickoski. 

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