North Macedonia’s opposition is pressing the ruling majority on holding snap elections after VMRO-DPMNE swept the local polls.
They warned on Friday to boycott to actively boycott plenary sessions from May 10, in addition to other severe measures.
However, the government says it is “entirely legitimate” and ruled out elections at the moment.
The opposition is expected to obstruct all bills passing in parliament, as well as submit tens of thousands of technical amendments that aim to delay plenary sessions.
Euronews Albania correspondent in Skopje Benjamin Arifi said that this means that all upcoming bills proposed by the state will be blocked in parliament.
“The Macedonian opposition did not accept the ultimatums of VMRO-DPNME, who set out May 10 as the deadline for the meeting where leaders will discuss snap elections only. It remains unknown whether there will be dialogue up until that date given that there’s no formal meeting between the representatives of VMRO-DPNME. Besa Movement, an ethnic Albanian center-right party, joined the opposition’s initiative”, reports Arifi.
The large influx of amendments per law makes their assessment extremely challenging, as every opposition MP has to elaborate on each amendment for 10 minutes, then come potential retaliations, all in all, making it physically impossible to pass a bill.
The practice is not uncommon in the Macedonian parliament, and in most cases it has actually worked, bringing leaders face-to-face to resolve the deadlock.
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