Skopje, 11 April 2023 (MIA) - The Ministry of Justice released Tuesday the names of the members of the working group on constitutional changes, nominated by parliamentary political parties and institutions.

The deadline for nomination of working group members expired on Thursday midnight.

The parliamentary political parties nominated the following members: Cvetanka Ivanova of SDSM, Arbr Ademi of DUI, Remzi Mehmedi of Alliance for Albanians, Sonja Mirakovska of NSDP, Nano Ruzhin of LDP, Hrista Najdanov of DOM, Temelko Risteski of Party of Pensioners, Rametula Kuqi of DPA, Eran Kurtish of Party for Movement of Turks, and Bejcan Iljas of Democracy Party of Turks.

The nominees coming from institutions are Aleksandar Spasov of the President's Office, Dragan Tilev of the Secretariat for European Affairs, and Shpend Sadiki of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Ministry says the names of experts-members of the working group will be released by the end of the week.

This working group has been established by the Ministry of Justice, charged with drafting the initiative over the need for constitutional changes. The Government is the petitioner of the constitutional changes. Once drafted, the amendments will have to pass through all parliamentary bodies, in parallel with public debates at which experts, parties, civil society organizations and other institutions will express their positions, reads the MoJ press release.

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