NEWS OF THE DAY: Travelling to Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro will be possible without a PCR test as of October 12

Based on coordination with the Ministries of Health from the region, today, at the government session we decided to allow nationals from the Republic of Serbia, Republic of Kosovo, Republic of Montenegro and Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina to enter the country without presenting a medical certificate with a negative RT PCR SARS CoV-2 test, announced Prime Minister Zaev on his Facebook profile.

“In these countries, from which the citizens until now had the obligation to present a negative RT PCR SARS CoV-2 test when entering-transiting our country, according to the principle of reciprocity, it has been agreed for our citizens to also be able to travel to these countries without the obligation of presenting a negative test.

This decision has been made upon a submitted proposal and a positive opinion of the Commission for Infectious Diseases, according to which to this moment there are no indications or a high number of positive cases entering from foreign countries, thus there is no high risk to the public health. The decision has been made for the purpose of realizing the necessary needs of the citizens, while the government urges for the travelling to be reduced to a minimum and only for urgent needs and by complying to all measures for personal protection against Covid-19”, said Zaev in the announcement.

STATEMENT OF THE DAY

An initiative has been submitted to the Constitutional Court for assessment of the last parliamentary election. The submitter, former Ambassador of North Macedonia to Croatia, Mahi Nesimi, who has been working for a longer time also on electoral matters, is disputing the equality in the voting by constituencies.

In an interview for CIVIL Media, Nesimi explains the elements his initiative contains, where the main argument is the exceeding of the legal limit of the number of voters per constituency. In the appeal it is stated that in constituency 2 there are over 5% more voters than the average number at the national level, and in the third and fourth constituency there are more than 5% less voters than the average.

CIVIL ACTIVITIES

Green CIVIL spoke with the Mayor of the City of Skopje, Petre Shilegov, about green perspectives of the municipality, promotion, fostering and understanding green values and their connection with social justice and antinationalism.

Green CIVIL asked the citizens in Veles and Kavadarci how much green values are fostered in their municipalities, how much citizens are aware of the needs for environmental protection, what needs to be changed …

CIVIL Media spoke with Petar Bogojeski from Macedonian Concept about his views on the internal and external factors and policies that are helping and hindering the EU integration, the political constellation after the elections, and the possible solutions for resolving several issues among the opposition ranks and the relations with Bulgaria.

FLASH NEWS

Bulgarian intellectuals against the memorandum of Sofia, Zaev does not expect a blockade from Bulgaria.

The government adopted a new budget rebalance, which it submitted for adoption to the Parliament, in order for the fourth set of anti-crisis measures to be implemented for assisting the economy and the citizens. Minister of Finance Fatmir Besimi expects quick adoption by Parliament in order for the fourth set of measures for assisting citizens, companies and the entire economy to start as soon as possible.

The Ministry of Education and Science informs that since the start of the new school year, October 1, the number of students following online teaching has increased by about 10 percent and that in less than a week around 80 percent of the students in secondary and primary schools have successfully joined the teaching and that the percentage since the start of school year is continuously growing.

Urgent adoption of a law on prevention and protection against discrimination, with a transparent procedure for election of members of the Commission, with the purpose of citizens receiving a quality legal framework and a reformed system for efficient and effective protection and prevention against discrimination, demanded the participant at today’s conference “Everyone, now: responsibility of institutions for unification against discrimination”, organized by the Network for Protection against Discrimination”.

The Public Transportation Enterprise informs that starting today, October 6, a greater number of busses have been included on most of the bus lines compared to the past period, more specifically, some of the lines in the public transportation have started operating according to a summer weekday timetable.

One person has been repeatedly making large sum payments to VMRO-DPMNE.

D. Muratov

Translation: N. Cvetkovska