MPs with 61 votes for and with no abstentions or against, decided to have the Proposal on amending the Rules of Procedures of the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia considered in a shortened procedure, which is to enable MPs who are in isolation due to a positive Covid-19 test or due to having had contact with an infected person to be able to join the work of the Parliament online.
The Proposal, which anticipates for MPs with a positive test for Covid-19 and with a decision for isolation to be able to vote in plenary sessions and at sessions of parliamentary committees, was submitted by the President of the Parliament, Talat Xhaferi.
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CIVIL ACTIVITIES
Actress Nesrin Tair, in a video message for the Initiative “United in Diversity” calls for unifying in diversity, and expressed her confidence that in our country there are many philanthropists. In her address, she quotes widely known Turkish artist Zulfi Livaneli and inspired by a thought from Dostoevsky says that beauty will save the world …
FLASH NEWS
The Prilep crisis headquarters demands from the main headquarters in the country tightening of measures and introducing addition restrictive measures.
Minister of Health Venko Filipce today had a meeting with the Director of the Covid centers of the “Mother Teresa” complex of clinics in Skopje, where the situation with the fullness of capacities of the clinics and the dynamic of opening new wards for Covid patients was reviewed.
Goran Misovski and Fadil Zendeli proposed for Vice Presidents of Parliament.
Minister of Culture Irena Stefoska at today’s press conference stated that about one-third of the obligations of the ministry for this year are transferred for next year, due to the budget rebalance in the month of May this year, when the budget for culture was reduced by 30% and because in June and July this year due to incomprehensible reasons, Annexes had been to agreements for increasing the amount of certain activities, as well as acceptance of projects upon appeal, which had been previously rejected.
The Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM) will demand from the Ministry of Justice in the amendments of the Criminal Code, in the part on penalties for attacks against journalists and media workers, announced by Minister of Justice Bojan Maricic, to include also expansion of the competencies of the prosecutor’s office to act in these cases.
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translation: N. Cvetkovska
