Zaev: No need for early parliamentary election
Prime Minister Zoran Zaev welcomed Monday the decision of the opposition party VMRO-DPMNE to go back to Parliament.
According to him, it is a contribution to a functioning democracy in the country.
Zaev said that the dialogue with the opposition was moving in the right direction.
“Working groups are convening and a majority of the bills have been harmonized with some of them being completely harmonized. It means that it can be expected Parliament to pass the laws by April 17, the day when the EC will release the progress reports. The Parliament Speaker told me he planned on April 10 to schedule a session with the laws on the agenda, which are part of the 3-6-9 Plan, i.e. part of the overall reforms in Macedonia,” noted PM Zaev.
The opposition party VMRO-DPMNE said yesterday it would return to Parliament only after a no-confidence motion against the government was filed and discussed prior to a session on the reform-oriented laws.
“It is their right to file a no-confidence motion against the government, but at the same time, we must be careful about adopting the laws before the deadline expires. We don’t want to give reasons to any of the EU members for anything because we have aligned the laws. It’s clear there is almost a complete consensus in Parliament over the adoption of the reform-oriented laws,” stressed the prime minister.
Furthermore, Zaev expressed hope that the ruling majority would manage to increase the number of MPs, thus stabilizing the parliamentary majority and the government-run policies in times when ‘the name issue is expected to be solved, a date for start of EU talks to be set, and NATO to extend membership invitation, etc.’
Earlier in the day, PM Zaev delivered an address at a debate as part of the 1st annual conference of the Ministry of Finance in which he reiterated that the government had no plans for snap parliamentary polls, because the businesses needed stability and all economic trends in the country needed to operate unhindered.