The Constitutional Court is set to discuss the initiative filed by DUI regarding the Assembly's dissolution early on Wednesday morning. The Macedonian parliament was dissolved in order to call for general elections on June 5, Telegraf.mk reads.
DUI believes that the decision to dissolve the Assembly was unconstitutional. It was passed so that early parliamentary elections would be held on June 5, although the DUI-affiliated MPs voted on adopting this decision on a session held on February 24. The DUI legislators have voiced optimism the Constitutional Court will pass e decision in their favor, strongly believing in the arguments they have put forward.
If the highest tribunal in Macedonia accepts the DUI initiative, the Assembly could reconvene without any problems and the MPs would annul the decision for the early June 5 parliamentary elections.
However, according to some experts, it is unlikely the court to decide that the dissolution of the Assembly was unconstitutional after several months ago it rejected the initiative filed by MP Pavle Trajanov, who heads the Democratic Alliance, arguing the constitutional court was not authorized to interfere in the decision brought by the legislature.
Provided the court does not accept this initiative, DUI is working on submitting another one.
The second DUI initiative will refer to the number of voters in the six electoral units in Macedonia. More concretely, DUI has remarks regarding the third, fourth and the sixth electoral unites, where deviations have been detected in the number of voters that exceeds the legally allowed 5 percent, which according to the party, is opposite to the Electoral Code.
But it is improbable the second initiative will be accepted by the Constitutional Court because the current number of voters in Macedonia has been maintained at some ten election cycles thus far and not one single party has previously voiced objections regarding the matter.