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D. Aleksov: As I said, it is one of the
possible solutions that we proposed. It
remains the political parties to reach a
consensus on whether the diaspora will
elect its representatives or not, and of
course the voting right to all citizens of
the Republic of Macedonia is guaranteed
by the Constitution. The problem with the
current solution, beside the inequality of
voice, is that most citizens of the Republic
of Macedonia living outside the country
are unable to exercise their voting right,
because voting is conducted in diplomatic
and consular missions of the Republic of
Macedonia.
When everything is taken into ac-
count, what does the summarized propos-
al of MOST look like regarding the elec-
tion system in the Republic of Macedonia
for the parliamentary elections in 2016?
Given that international standards prohibit changes D. Aleksov: Given that international
in the election system in a period of one year before standards prohibit changes in the election
the elections, MOST stands only for improvement system in a period of one year before the
of the existing system by introducing open lists elections, MOST stands only for improve-
ment of the existing system by introduc-
of their last place of residence. If this so- ing open lists.
lution is applied in the Republic of Mac-
edonia, the Parliament would again have Even if the most perfect election sys-
120 MPs. tem is designed for a country, in the end
of the day the introduction of that sys-
tem requires strong political will of all
involved political factors. For the end of
this interview, do you think we will see
such political will of all political parties in
the Repu blic of Macedonia? You say that
this issue requires consensus, not nego-
tiations.
The view according to which there D. Aleksov: We hope that finally a sus-
would be no special electoral districts for tainable system will be built that will be
the diaspora, but their votes would be in- in the interest of the institutions, proc-
cluded in the electoral districtin which esses and citizens and according to which
they belong according to the last address political parties will adjust their inter-
of residence in the Republic of Macedonia ests, needs and inner organization, rather
is interesting. I guess that in this case, if than as it was before - the system to be
the parties include people from the di- built according to the interests and needs
aspora on their lists for MPs, the diaspora of political parties and their inner organi-
will again have representatives, but only zation.
they will not come from a separate elec-
toral district. What is your opinion about Prepared by Zoran Jovanovski
this?
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