Skopje, 12 June 2025 (MIA) – VMRO-DPMNE has no objection to supporting a single electoral district, party leader and Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski said in response to a reporter’s question about the proposed amendments to the Electoral Code under a fast-track procedure, which are on today’s agenda of the parliamentary session, submitted by the Liberal Democratic Party.

He repeated the party’s stance that they will back a proposal for a single electoral district that includes the diaspora’s right to vote. As he stated, “There is no greater democratic right than the diaspora taking part in the electoral process for parliamentary and presidential elections,” after the opposition European Front MP accused the government of ignoring the diaspora with the new Law on Local Self-Government and restricting their rights.

“We support having a single electoral district in which they can participate in such an electoral process. We want to avoid costs, to eliminate multiple electoral districts, and to have a single district where practically all votes are counted, both from the resident population and from the diaspora willing to take part. While voting has been held traditionally at the diplomatic-consular offices, some countries permit ballot boxes to be placed outside these locations, extraterritorially, and we said we support that as well. VMRO-DPMNE has no objection to backing a single electoral district,” Mickoski said during his visit to the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Skopje on Thursday.

The proposal by Liberal Democratic Party MP Monika Zajkova to introduce a single electoral district, submitted under a fast-track procedure, is on the agenda of today’s 53rd Parliament session.

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