The DUI and VMRO-DPMNE initiative on changes to the Law on Pardoning is to be discussed in Parliament on Thursday at 2:00 pm.
These amendments are to be passed in an express procedure, and according to DUI, the president will be able to annul the abolition of all 56 people or to withdraw the decision on each individual case on the demand of the person pardoned.
The legal changes were proposed by DUI MP Talat Xhaferi and VMRO-DPMNE lawmaker Ilija Dimovski.
With the amendments to the draft bill on pardoning a new article is planned to be integrated which introduces the possibility the chief of state to nullify the pardoning procedure passed in an individual act within 30 days since the day of the passing of this law, while at the same time, the president would not be obliged to elaborate on his decision. The person encompassed in the pardoning decision has the right to file an annulment motion to the president, and the latter is due within 30 days since the day the motion was submitted to dismiss the brought decision.
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Demolished people's office of President Gjorge Ivanov in downtown Skopje.
The general abolition decision prompted protests taking place in Skopje daily, which also saw the demolition of Gjorge Ivanov people's office.
However, an initiative to amend the Law on Pardoning was also filed by SDSM. The opposition wants the parliament's Legal Committee, to provide an authentic interpretation of the Law on Pardoning and pass a decision that Article 11 from the same bill does not exit, and that based on the missing legal provision, the president could not have passed the pardoning decision.
The MPs are also set to discuss the changes to four other different laws.
The draft bill on protection of privacy would allow,in a shortened procedure, the determination of the citizens' privacy, guaranteed by the Constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights, in relation to the materials arising from the illegal surveillance of communications carried out in the 2008-2015 period. The law prescribes the ban to own, process, publicly display the materials that represent a violation of privacy, or the personal or family life of the persons involved. The law also stipulates the prohibition to own, process, publicly share and dispose of in any way the materials arising from the illegal surveillance of communications carried out during the 2008-15 period including their usage during the election process or in other political goals and procedures.
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The amendments to the Law on Personal Data Protection entail the determination of personal data processing, of those contained in courts' decisions. With the proposed changes, the personal data processing contained in the electoral roll is done in conditions determined by the Electoral Code and on a manner prescribed by the regulations passed based on this law.
The amendments to the Electoral Code entail precise definition of the Article 31 regulation that stipulates the electronic access to the voters registry. With the proposed legal solutions that are to be integrated in the Electoral Code, the State Election Commission will be able to provide an electronic access to the electoral roll, in line with the code and on a manner prescribed by the regulations passed based on this law.