CIVIL will hold a press conference where information and analyses from the monitoring of the election process so far will be discussed. CIVIL’s Press Conference will be held today (Tuesday), September 21, at 12.00 noon, in Macedonian, and at 12.30pm in Albanian, at the Organization’s Press Center that is located on the 3rd floor of the “Paloma Bjanka” Business Center.
Shouldn’t we think about abolishing the strict, formal, election campaign “constraints” that no one respects anyway? Here, campaigns are led 365 days a year, there is no break – as we see, neither for state or religious holidays. Nor does anyone have crucial control over the money spent, nor are the conditions for candidates “fair and balanced”, and we are just bringing the institutions that are supposed to control that in a situation of being compromised, because they have to implement laws and regulations for which everyone is aware are (almost) unenforceable, writes Saso Ordanoski in today’s column “The elections are like the Battle of Waterloo”!”.
SESSION In Parliament today, the Committee on Political System and Inter-Community Relations, on European Affairs, on Labour and Social Policy and on Agriculture, Forestry and Water Resources Management will hold sessions.
The Draft Law on the Academy for Judges and Public Prosecutors, in first reading, is the only item on the agenda of the Committee on Political System and Inter-Community Relations.
On the proposed agenda of the Committee on European Affairs are the Draft Law on Protection of Natural Persons in Relation to the Processing of Personal Data for the Purposes of Prevention, Investigation, Detection or Prosecution of Criminal Offenses or the Execution of Criminal Penalties, the draft laws on Advocacy, on Civil Liability for Insult and Defamation, on the Academy for Judges and Public Prosecutors and the Draft Law on Amending the Criminal Code, all in first reading
Members of the Committee on Labour and Social Policy are to to review the Draft Law on amending the Law on Labor Relations in second reading and the Annual Report on the work of the Agency for Supervision of Fully Funded Pension Insurance in 2020 and the financial reports of this institution for 2020.
The Draft Law on amending the Law on Hunting in first reading, submitted by a group of MPs, is the only item on the agenda of the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Water Resources Management.
CULTURE With the awarding of festival recognitions and prizes, tonight in Bitola, the 42nd edition of the International Cinematographers Film Festival “Manaki Brothers” ends. In the big hall of the Bitola Cultural Center, the jury led by Suki Medencevic from Bosnia and Hercegovina and members Phillip Bergson from Great Britain, Wim Vanacker from Belgium, Sonja Prosenc from Slovenia and Dimo Popov from North Macedonia will award a gold, silver and bronze “Camera 300”, as well as small “Camera 300” for cinematographers who have competed for the prestigious awards.
Translation: N. Cvetkovska
