Skopje, 18 May 2026 (MIA) - Parliament will hold its 102nd session Monday, with several items on the agenda, including two-hour session for opposition MPs’ questions.

The proposed agenda includes the draft decision on deploying a member of the Army to participate in the European Union operation EUFOR Althea in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which will first be reviewed by the Committee on Defence and Security. The session is also expected to adopt the draft law on youth allowance as well as the amendments and supplements to the Law on Industrial Green Zones (both in second reading), and the Fiscal Strategy of the Republic of North Macedonia for the 2027–2031 period.

Under a shortened procedure, amendments and supplements are proposed to the Law on the Government of the Republic of Macedonia, the Law on Mediation, the Law on Primary Education, the Law on Secondary Education, the Law on the Protection of Patients’ Rights and the Health Insurance Law. The procedure also includes the draft law on financial support for socially vulnerable categories of citizens to mitigate the effects of the price crisis, amendments to the Law on Public Roads, the Law on Local Self-Government, the Law on Pupils’ Standard, the Law in Student Standard, the Law on Establishment of the Public Enterprise Macedonian Broadcasting, the Law on Internal Affairs, the Law on Police and the Law on Financial Support of Investments.

Also to be adopted under a shortened procedure is the draft law on the borrowing of the Republic of North Macedonia through a loan from KfW IPEX-Bank GmbH, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, Erste Group Bank AG, AKA Ausfuhrkredit-Gesellschaft mbH and Merrill Lynch International under a loan agreement for general budgetary purposes, including the financing of capital expenditures and the refinancing of obligations stipulated in the state budget.

The agenda also includes the 2025 annual report on the work of the Judicial Council of the Republic of North Macedonia along with requests for authentic interpretation of Article 5, paragraph 2 and 3 of the Law on Personal Income Tax, filed by MP Oliver Spasovski and Article 18, paragraph 3 of the Law on Financing Local Self-Government Units, submitted by MP Zorancho Jovanchev. 

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