Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski invited the leaders of the three biggest parliamentary parties, SDSM's Zoran Zaev, BDI's Ali Ahmeti, and PDSH's Menduh Thaci, to a meeting on Friday. The main topics discussed at this meeting will be the upcoming elections and further improvement of the election legislation and the democratic procedures in the implementation of the elections, as issues that are of great importance to Macedonia's EU perspective.

Over the next few days, Assembly Chairman Trajko Veljanoski is expected to set the date for the presidential and local elections, which will be held in March. The Assembly will hold its first plenary session this year on Friday, 9 January. The parliamentary Legislative Committee convened on Monday to discuss the amendments and addenda to the Law on Pardoning.