The leaders of the four biggest parliamentary parties in Macedonia reached an agreement as regards the amendments to the Election Code and Constitution at their meeting yesterday. The leaders agreed that the diaspora should be able to vote as of the next parliamentary elections; that new members of the State Election Commission should be elected and that the chairperson of this commission should be from the opposition; and that the presidential and local elections should be held on 15 March year 2009. The party leaders also supported SDSM’s proposal that the threshold in the second round of the presidential election be reduced from 50 to 40 percent. BDI abandoned its proposal for the Assembly to elect the president of the state, while PDSH withdrew its demand for an Albanian to be elected vice-president.