Government
The Government promoted Plan 18 yesterday afternoon, which is a continuation of Plan 3-6-9 for the urgent reform measures for EU approximation.
The judicial system, the security-intelligence services, the public administration and the fight against organized crime and corruption are the priority subjects of the reform measures.
Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, Deputy Prime Minister Bujar Osmani, Minister of Interior, Oliver Spasovski, Minister of Justice, Renata Deskoska and the Minister of Administration, Damjan Mancevski spoke in the presentation before the journalists about the reforms from Plan 18, which was adopted at a government session last week.
Parliament
Today the Committee for Mandate-Immunity Issues voted on taking away the parliamentary immunity of MP Nikola Gruevski, based on a notice received from the court that the MP is convicted to two years in prison. Five members of the Committee from the parliamentary majority voted “for”.
The MPs from VMRO-DPMNE left the Committee, after MP Trajko Veljanovski accused that it’s an arranged political process.
The recommendations for taking away the mandate of Nikola Gruevski will be sent to the Parliament of Republic of Macedonia, where it should be voted on with a two-thirds majority.
The Parliamentary Committee for Constitutional Changes will start the debate today on the four draft-amendments to the Constitution, according to the Prespa Agreement, which is to last 12 days. The President of the Parliament, Talat Xhaferi, who is at the same time also the president of the Committee, scheduled it for December 1.
Trials
The trial for the SPO case “Titanic” continued today in the Criminal Court.
At the last hearing in the courtroom, about fifty video recordings were released.
Today’s hearing for the case “Total” was postponed due to the absence of the President of the Court Council. The new hearing is scheduled for December 21, 10.00 am.
Dragan Pavlovic Latas and his defenders were present at today’s hearing.
Health
The Ministry of Health published the text of the new law proposal on the termination of pregnancy, in which it says that it is a special medical intervention for which the pregnant woman decides freely.
The new law proposal follows five years after the restrictive law was passed on termination of pregnancy, which was adopted in 2013 in an urgent procedure, without prior consultation with the expert public, women’s civil society organizations and other stakeholders.
The change of this law in 2013 was one of the series of measures that had the purpose to retraditionalize the role of the woman as a mother, that is, for it to influence democratic policies, or the birth rate in the country, a law that limited the right of a woman to a safe and secure abortion.
D. Tahiri
