From today’s daily events we outline the following:
Amnesty
So far, 38 requests for amnesty have been submitted to the Criminal Court in Skopje, and the deadline for such requests expires today at 3.00 pm. In the case “April 27”, 33 people are accused for the crime terrorist endangering of the constitutional order of the state. Amnesty can be requested also by the already convicted persons for the attempted murder of MP Zijadin Sela, as well as the offender for the attack on Minister Radmila Shekerinska.
Constitutional changes
Albanian opposition parties, Besa of Biljal Kasami and the Alliance for the Albanians are announcing that they will submit new constitutional amendments by New Year, for the scheduled parliamentary debate on January 9, 2019.
Besa will submit three amendments to the Constitution that refer to the citizenship and the state care for the diaspora.
The Alliance for the Albanians is announcing amendments to the three draft-amendments of the Government.
“We will probably have an amendment to the Preamble, that is, to the draft amendment 34, where our goal is to eliminate that specifying of ethnic communities, which separates the Macedonian people from the others. Hence, the tendency is to specify without categorization of citizens of Macedonia”, stated Surija Rashidi, MP of the Alliance for Albanians.
Trials
Today the hearing for the case “TNT” continued, for which, among others, Nikola Gruevski and Mile Janakievski are also accused. Sefer Canovski testified at the trial today, who is the owner of the “Kosmos” complex. In testifying for the “TNT” case of the SPO, he stated that he had begged Orce Kamcev and DUI leader Ali Ahmeti to influence Nikola Gruevski not to demolish the building.
“Macedonia blocks”
After almost more than a year, the tents that were put up in front of the Parliament of Republic of Macedonia have been removed. This morning a team from the city communal enterprise cleaned up the litter and the remains the protestors from “Macedonia Blocks” left behind themselves.
Human Rights and Freedoms
CIVIL – Center for Freedom declared the month of December as a month of human rights. We remind every day about the articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Freedoms
On December 25, CIVIL reminds of Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which stipulates:
- Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
- Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.
In Republic of Macedonia, the right to social financial assistance has a person capable of working and household (a community of family members and other relatives between which there is no legal obligation for mutual support, who jointly contribute, manage and spend).
The applicant, or person entitled to the right of social financial assistance is an unemployed person who is actively seeking work according to the Law on employment and insurance in case of being unemployed, materially unsecured, and who according to other regulations cannot provide means for existence. Materially unsecured is a person and a household that generates income on all bases lower than the amount of social financial assistance, determined by this law, and who does not own the property and property rights from which it can be supported.
Socially endangered persons are: beneficiaries of permanent financial assistance and a person who until to the age of 18 had a status of a child without parents and without parental care, that is, after the cease of the guardianship, at most until the age of 26.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 10, 1948.
D. Tahiri
