North Macedonian ministry of justice to submit proposal on recognizing Bulgaria and other nations in constitution

The Macedonian Ministry of Justice must send to the parliament the proposal for adding the Bulgarians in the constitution, a condition for the start of the negotiations on joining the European Union. The text, as reported in the working group that prepared the constitutional changes, has already been submitted to the Ministry of Justice and it contains, in addition to the Bulgarians, five more "sections of peoples" to be added in an attempt to quell discontent with the new concession (as perceived by many citizens) of Macedonian sovereignty. [...] Changes to the constitution require two-thirds of the votes of the deputies (80 out of 120), and the government does not even have 65. [...] Part of the delay before they reach parliament is due to technical procedures, including to translate the text into Albanian; then they must be approved at a government meeting. [...] The constitutional amendments were part of the so-called "French proposal" (by France as the then rotating president of the Council of the European Union), with which Bulgaria and North Macedonia tied compliance with several Bulgarian conditions to a European negotiation process. [...] In the preamble of the constitution, after the Bosnian people, the Bulgarian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Slovenian, Jewish, Egyptian peoples are added, said judge Margarita Tsatsa Nikolovska, chairperson of the Human Rights Institute, after the last meeting of the working group.
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